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Re:Strong Consistency with Raft and SQLite by eatonphil on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @11:43AM (#35247815)
> The more nodes, the less likely any one going down harms things but the harder it is to reach consensus

Flexible quorums deals with this in the usual read/write case. But yeah leader election then becomes the bottleneck. So if the cluster is unstable overall performance gets even worse as you scale number of nodes.

https://fpaxos.github.io/

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