Merge pull request #310 from josephholsten/raft-viz

add link to raft visualization
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Armon Dadgar 2014-08-30 16:50:51 -07:00
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Consul uses a [consensus protocol](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_(computer_science))
to provide [Consistency](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem) as defined by CAP.
This page documents the details of this internal protocol. The consensus protocol is based on
["Raft: In search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm"](https://ramcloud.stanford.edu/wiki/download/attachments/11370504/raft.pdf).
["Raft: In search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm"](https://ramcloud.stanford.edu/wiki/download/attachments/11370504/raft.pdf). For a visual explanation of Raft, see the [The Secret Lives of Data](http://thesecretlivesofdata.com/raft).
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<strong>Advanced Topic!</strong> This page covers technical details of