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Understanding Raft: Consensus Algorithm for Distributed Systems

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David Puziol Prata
DevOps at @ Encora

In an increasingly connected world, distributed systems play a crucial role in ensuring the availability, reliability, and integrity of services. However, coordinating and maintaining consistency among multiple nodes in a distributed environment is a complex task. This is where Raft comes in, a consensus algorithm designed to simplify and make the process of maintaining consistency among nodes in a distributed system more understandable.