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by withinboredom 232 days ago
Further, please don’t stop at RAFT. RAFT is popular because it is easy to understand, not because it is the best way to do distributed consensus. It is non-deterministic (thus requiring odd numbers of electors), requires timeouts for liveness (thus latency can kill you), and isn’t all that good for general-purpose consensus, IMHO.