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Raft is arguably more difficult to understand at a deep level. After extensive study, I've noticed that Raft hides all of its complexity under its leader electi

Raft is arguably more difficult to understand at a deep level. After extensive study, I've noticed that Raft hides all of its complexity under its leader election setup. There's nuance after nuance. With Paxos, the complexity is explicit and at the forefront, which is actually better, when trying to reason about a distributed system and its invariants.

ccleve 8y ago
That was my experience as well. The rules around leader election, terms, voting, timeouts and the like are very subtle.
pests 8y ago
Raft is basically a fixed leader elected by a single round of Paxos.