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The Raft consensus algorithm, explained piece by piece

14 planned pages · 16:9All use cases

Page plan · 14 pages

Written for: Backend and distributed-systems engineers

  1. 1

    Raft in depth: consensus you can follow

  2. 2

    The replicated state machine

  3. 3

    Why Paxos is hard to follow

  4. 4

    Designing for understandability

  5. 5

    Server states and terms

  6. 6

    Electing a leader with randomized timeouts

  7. 7

    Replicating the log

  8. 8

    How logs are kept consistent

  9. 9

    Safety rules: who may become leader

  10. 10

    The two remote procedure calls: RequestVote and AppendEntries

  11. 11

    Changing membership and taking snapshots

  12. 12

    The understandability study

    Column chart: Mean quiz score of 43 students after learning each algorithm. Source: In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm (Extended Version) · checked 2026-10-10

  13. 13

    How long elections take

    Bar chart: Time without a leader after a crash, by election-timeout range (five servers). Source: In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm (Extended Version) · checked 2026-10-10

  14. 14

    Trade-offs and where to read the full paper

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