As part of my next post, I was looking to review the paper for Raft consensus algorithm. But this is one paper which I found has a lot of implementation details as part of it. On a high level it does says that we rely on consensus across nodes for performing an operation and have a leader election component when a leader node goes down. But Raft presents a very simple and understandable approach for these two components. Understandability is the main focus of the paper and it emphasizes that ...