Being an undergrad with no prior distributed systems education, I was able to comfortably read the white paper on Raft. The same cannot be said of any of the hi

Being an undergrad with no prior distributed systems education, I was able to comfortably read the white paper on Raft. The same cannot be said of any of the highly recommended white papers on Paxos. It's pretty awesome how many implementations have popped up since the white paper, too. I think the cool thing about Raft is that it is making consensus widely available and easy for people to plug into their applications, rather than requiring an expert to integrate Paxos into their application.