Raft Consensus with a Minority of Nodes

Raft Consensus with a Minority of Nodes By Rohan Padhye (@moarbugs on X) tl;dr — This post describes a (wacky) modification to the Raft consensus protocol such that progress can be made even if fewer than a majority of nodes are actively participating, given some constraints on exactly which minority of nodes are active. The math behind this comes from the same place as the card game Spot It! (Dobble). Raft Consensus Basics Raft is a consensus protocol for managing a replicated log across a clus