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Raft - The Understandable Distributed Protocol
Summary
Ben Johnson discusses the Raft protocol and how it works. Raft is a consensus distributed protocol.
Bio
Ben Johnson has ten years of software development experience working in database architecture, distributed systems and data visualization. He is the lead developer of the Sky behavioural database project (http://skydb.io/) and lead developer of the Go implementation of the Raft protocol (https://github.com/benbjohnson/go-raft).
About the conference
Strange Loop is a multi-disciplinary conference that aims to bring together the developers and thinkers building tomorrow's technology in fields such as emerging languages, alternative databases, concurrency, distributed systems, mobile development, and the web.