Raft: In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm

In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm (Extended Version)
AKA - The Raft Paper

https://raft.github.io/raft.pdf

Presented by Chris Hiestand, Systems Consultant at Kistek LLC (https://kistek.consulting/)

How does a distributed system maintain a consistent state that is resilient to failures, while keeping that system understandable by the average engineer? Raft is an answer to that problem and is being used by many modern tools including etcd and consul.

As a supplement to the paper, check out these great visualizations:

https://raft.github.io/
http://thesecretlivesofdata.com/raft/

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