System Design
leader / follower / candidate
the three Raft roles
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- commitstored on a majority, now safe
- election timeoutrandom wait before a follower runs
- heartbeatleader's 'still alive' ping
- log entryone command in order
- Paxosthe original (harder) consensus protocol
- quorum / majorityN/2+1
- Rafta readable consensus algorithm
- split-brain fenceold-term leaders ignored
- terman epoch that increments each election