Raft's Basics and High-Level Workflow

Raft basics

This lesson will cover the building blocks of a Raft consensus algorithm: the server roles used in the algorithm, how Raft handles the elections and terms, and what types of Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) it uses to achieve its functionality.

Server states

A Raft cluster operates with a minimum of $N/2 +1$ votes in favor of a specific server, where ...