Distributed Systems Engineering: Raft Consensus Algorithm

This lecture covers the Raft Consensus Algorithm, a distributed consensus protocol designed to be easy to understand and widely used in the industry. It explains the different states of nodes in Raft, the process of log replication, and the election process. The lecture also delves into the challenges faced in distributed systems like contention, asynchrony, and Byzantine faults, and introduces the concept of a leader in consensus algorithms.