quorum / majority

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Who Holds the PenSystem Design

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