Ongaro and Ousterhout: Raft consensus

What changed

Consensus could be presented and implemented through a comparatively understandable leader-centered decomposition.

Scientific scope

2014 two-author paper; implementation variants and later membership/operational extensions excluded.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the 2014 two-author paper. Raft implementations, extensions, membership variants and operational reliability remain separate.

Contributors

• Diego Ongaro · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• John Ousterhout · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• Ongaro and Ousterhout, In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm
• Raft Consensus Algorithm project

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