Implementing the Raft Consensus Algorithm

Jiayu Liu
Carnegie Mellon University

ABSTRACT

Recently there has been a new consensus algorithm named “Raft” for
distributed systems, which was proposed by the authors as an algorithm
that’s easier than Paxos to understand and implement.  In this report
I try to implement the “Raft” algorithm using modern, high level
programming language (Java) and tools, in order to evaluate the claim
as well as gain deeper understanding of the common challenges and
pitfalls in implementing a distributed consensus algorithm.