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how to use this package in practice:
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https://github.com/coreos/etcd/tree/master/contrib/raftexample
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+# Features
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+This raft implementation is a full feature implementation of Raft protocol. Features includes:
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+- Leader election
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+- Log replication
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+- Log compaction
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+- Membership changes
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+- Leadership transfer extension
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+- Lease-based linearizable read-only queries served by both the leader and followers
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+This raft implementation also includes a few optional enhancements:
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+- Optimistic pipelining to reduce log replication latency
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+- Flow control for log replication
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+- Batching Raft messages to reduce synchronized network I/O calls
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+- Batching log entries to reduce disk synchronized I/O
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+- Writing to leader's disk in parallel
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+- Internal proposal redirection from followers to leader
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+- Automatic stepping down when the leader loses quorum
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## Notable Users
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- [cockroachdb](https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach) A Scalable, Survivable, Strongly-Consistent SQL Database
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Xiang Li