Implementing the Raft Distributed Consensus Protocol in Go
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bonobocop
2 months ago
The MIT course for Raft (with the lectures on YouTube) was great to learn for me: http://nil.lcs.mit.edu/6.824/2020/labs/lab-raft.html
intermerda
2 months ago
If you are okay with writing Java, the dslabs framework is great as well. The penultimate project around fault tolerance can be done in Raft.
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