Four Ways to Survive a Network Split

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You may never implement consensus yourself. This article looks at four protocols: Multi-Paxos, Viewstamped Replication, Zab, and Raft. Reason about leader changes, stale reads, write latency, quorum size, and recovery time. Raft Raft was designed around understandability. Which operations actually pass through consensus?

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