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by ziedaniel1 1625 days ago
As someone who TA'd 6.824 (Distributed Systems) twice, I 100% agree. It's easier to halfway understand Raft than to halfway understand Paxos, but implementing a consensus algorithm correctly requires understanding it fully. Once you start talking about e.g. the "election restriction", Raft becomes a bit hairy.

(Hi Jeremy!)
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jlrubin 1623 days ago
Hi back atcha!

I took 6.824 under Paxos (I think we took it at the same time maybe? not sure if you were TA at that point) and then helped a friend when it switched to raft and good lord that seemed to be a worse for them.

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ziedaniel1 1621 days ago
(Yeah, I was not a TA then -- I took it under Paxos in Spring 2014 but only TA'd it after the switch to Raft)
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