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Micah Lerner

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Hello! I'm Micah. This is my blog, where I publish my writing (mostly focused on Computer Science research).

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Understanding Raft Consensus

Recently I was digging deeper into Raft , an important algorithm in the field of distributed systems. Raft is a consensus algorithm , meaning that it is designed to facilitate a set of computers agreeing on a state of the world (more on exactly how the state of the world is represented later), even when communications…