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Raft Consensus Algorithm

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Raft is a consensus algorithm that is designed to be easy to understand.

Raft Consensus Algorithm The Raft Consensus Algorithm Quick Links Raft paper raft-dev mailing list Raft implementations What is Raft? Raft is a consensus algorithm that is designed to be easy to understand. It's equivalent to Paxos in fault-tolerance and performance. The difference is that it's decomposed into relatively independent subproblems, and it cleanly addresses all major pieces needed for practical systems. We hope Raft will make consensus available to a wider audience, and that this wider audience will be able to develop a variety of higher quality consensus-based systems than are av

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