(Disclaimer: involved with the work linked.)

A short version of this tech report is due to appear in the January special issue on repeatable research of the Operating Systems review journal. A pre-print is available at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ms705/pub/papers/2015-osr-raft.pdf (10 pages).

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I love this animation/website for anyone looking to get a great 10 min visual quick start into Raft and distributed consensus in general http://thesecretlivesofdata.com/raft/