Decentralized systems engineering
CS-438
Optional reading: "In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm"
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Description
This paper presents Raft, one of the most commonly used consensus algorithms in production systems.
It is functionally very similar to (Multi-)Paxos, but takes a more understandable approach to consensus.