In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm

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Diego Ongaro

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Abstract

Consensus is a fundamental building block for fault-tolerant systems, but it's poorly understood. We struggled to build a real system with Paxos, the most widely used consensus algorithm today. As a result, we developed Raft to be easier to understand. In this talk, I'll give an overview of how Raft works. More info on Raft can be found at http://raftconsensus.github.io