Consensus and Leader Election

Raft in enough detail to reason about it, quorums, and why split-brain is the failure to fear.

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The Raft paper. Written specifically to be followable, and still the fastest route to understanding leader election and log replication.

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Raft in enough detail to reason about it, quorums, and why split-brain is the failure to fear.

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