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Visualization author here. Cool to see it get some HN love despite being six years old. Unfortunately, the visualization project is effectively dead. The Raft
by benbjohnson 6y ago
Visualization author here. Cool to see it get some HN love despite being six years old.
Unfortunately, the visualization project is effectively dead. The Raft visualization involved a lot of painful D3.js coding and effectively writing a JS Raft implementation. In hindsight, a deterministic format would be much easier. I toyed around with learning After Effects in hopes of producing some other visualization videos but I never did finish any.
I'm glad folks are still getting value out of the Raft visualization. The paper is good but it helps to see data move over time to really make it click.
- tcbasche 6y agoIt really is super handy to see what was being described in the paper! Curiously I posted this about a year ago and it didn't make the front page. The internet is a fickle place...
- n_f 6y agothis was super helpful for me when I was trying to understand the related paxos algorithms, thanks so much for making this!
- arendtio 6y agoWell, just two weeks ago I was searching for a quick intro on how Raft works, because I heard it several times over the years, but never took the time to see how it actually works. I didn't really find something to digest quickly until I saw your page. Great work and thank you!