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For paxos, this explains it very well (while you are likely to require multi-paxos): https://understandingpaxos.wordpress.com/ https://understandingpaxos.wordpress.com/ For Raft, comparing it with paxos, it is simple, but in general, it isn't a simple protocol, there are several details to take care of. Edit: There is a great raft implementation in go (https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd).