adikul30 / raft

Raft is a distributed consensus algorithm.

Project for RIT CSCI-652 Distributed Systems course

raft

1. Install go

   https://go.dev/doc/install

2. Terminal window 1 => Server

   By default, the code uses 3 nodes. Change N in both server and client files to experiment on using more nodes.

   git clone https://github.com/adikul30/raft

   cd raft/server/main

   to print only important logs

   go run server.go -logtostderr=true -v=1

   to print detailed logs instead

   go run server.go -logtostderr=true -v=2

   After a leader has been elected, to add new logs to raft, run the client.

3. Terminal window 2 => Client

   cd raft/client/main

   go run client.go

References

      title={In search of an understandable consensus algorithm},
      author={Ongaro, Diego and Ousterhout, John},
      booktitle={2014 $\{$USENIX$\}$ Annual Technical Conference ($\{$USENIX$\}$$\{$ATC$\}$ 14)},
      pages={305--319},
      year={2014}
    }

2. Excellent MIT OCW (https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/schedule.html) lectures and labs.
3. This awesome vizualization (http://thesecretlivesofdata.com/raft/)