For the past few months, I have been a Teaching Assistant for MIT’s 6.824 Distributed Systems class. The class has traditionally had a number of labs building o...
Figure 10: Switching directly from one configuration to another is unsafe because different servers will switch at different times. In this example, the cluster...
Figure 6: Logs are composed of entries, which are numbered sequentially. Each entry contains the term in which it was created (the number in each box) and a com...
Figure 2: A condensed summary of the Raft consensus algorithm (excluding membership changes and log compaction). The server behavior in the upper-left box is de...
