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Demystifying Distributed Consensus: From Paxos to Raft and Multi-Raft in Modern Storage Engines
An engineering deep-dive into how distributed databases guarantee linearizability across network partitions: Paxos tradeoffs, Raft mechanics, log compaction, and scaling with Multi-Raft groups.
ACM BIT Mesra Technical ArchitectureArchitecture Wing · ACM BIT Mesra
Oct 21, 2026Read Article