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Golang implementation of the Raft consensus protocol

Language: Go

Implementing a distributed key-value store on top of implementing Raft in Go | May 2023

I have found the performance tests very tricky to get to pass without having any input from others. The assignment is really very unforgiving, I would wager the test suite is comparable to how commercial Raft implementations are tested (e.g. https://github.com/hashicorp/raft)

Raft Is So Fetch: The Raft Consensus Algorithm Explained Through Mean Girls | Oct 2022

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Yup! etcd [0] and hashicorp [1] have Raft libraries for Go. I've written about using the hashicorp one before [2, 3].

[0] https://pkg.go.dev/go.etcd.io/etcd/raft/v3

[1] https://github.com/hashicorp/raft

[2] https://notes.eatonphil.com/distributed-postgres.html

[3] https://notes.eatonphil.com/minimal-key-value-store-with-has...

Looking for a TypeScript Implementation of Raft | May 2022

Hey,

you could inspire yourself by hashicorps raft implementation written in go and build one for typescript. Code is quite good to read and Go ins't that far away from typescript.

https://github.com/hashicorp/raft

Raft Consensus Protocol | Nov 2021

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In general HashiCorp's repos are high quality:

https://github.com/hashicorp/raft

Example application: https://github.com/Jille/raft-grpc-example

Kafka Removing Zookeeper Dependency | May 2020

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This is the difference between a library and a framework/project.

For example, there's a great Raft library for Go [1] that any project can use to implement distributed consensus without a separate running program. I find this to be a better approach with the same collective development and community testing advantages but without requiring more operational overhead.

1. https://github.com/hashicorp/raft