Re:Destroying Cockroaches and a Hackathon Experience
by psiclops on Saturday April 01, 2017 @01:03AM
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I would suggest https://raft.github.io/
That has a nice, interactive visualization along with links to the paper itself, implementations, and talks about raft.
Our foundation with respect to distributed systems isn't really formally rigid (I'm still trying to understand how Raft and Paxos work) and looking at this will probably help a lot!