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by frabcus 4626 days ago
Do you know who the best person we can interview about this is? Looks really interesting / important.
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Raft isn't for "decentralized" exactly, because it relies on knowing the number and identities of participants (and deliberately stops being able to commit updates when the number falls below a quorum). It's "no single point of failure" but the algorithm implies a sysadmin in control.