I recently started my self learning of distributed systems.

To get started, I first need to understand how a consensus algorithm can help in building said systems.

I went through the original raft paper and a very helpful illustration video in Chinese to have a very basic understanding of the algorithm.

To better solidify such knowledge in my brain, I decided to write a blog post to write down my thought process and then see where it goes from here. Here is a xmind graph I made to help myself sort things out.