Raft Consensus with a Minority of Nodes By Rohan Padhye (@moarbugs on X) tl;dr — This post describes a (wacky) modification to the Raft consensus protocol such that progress can be made even if fewer than a majority of nodes … Read more
I have an early adulthood trauma from struggling to understand consensus amidst a myriad of poor explanations. I am overcompensating for that by adding my own attempts to the fray. Today, I want to draw a series of pictures which … Read more
Listen–1.0x+ 0:008:41 Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Two years ago, U.S. intelligence analysts concluded, in unusually emphatic language, that a mysterious and debilitating ailment known as … Read more
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 … Read more
Search Consul documentation Consul uses a consensus protocol to provide Consistency (as defined by CAP). The consensus protocol is based on “Raft: In search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm”. For a visual explanation of Raft, see The Secret Lives of … Read more
In our 54th reading group meeting, we were looking for an answer to an important question in the distributed systems community: “What about Raft?” We looked at the “Paxos vs Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus?” paper to … Read more