Raft, a scrutable successor to Paxos

download: https://ramcloud.stanford.edu/wiki/download/attachments/1137...

This is essentially Zab with a different leader election protocol, combined with the Migration trick from SMART.

Zab: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs347/reading/zab.pdf

SMART: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/howell/papers/...