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Xiang Li 12 years ago
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 * Fast: benchmarked 1000s of writes/s per instance
 * Fast: benchmarked 1000s of writes/s per instance
 * Reliable: Properly distributed using Raft
 * Reliable: Properly distributed using Raft
 
 
-Etcd is written in go and uses the [raft][raft] paxos implementation for high availability. 
+Etcd is written in go and uses the [raft][raft] consensus algorithm to manage replicated
+log for high availability. 
 
 
 See [go-etcd][go-etcd] for a native go client. Or feel free to just use curl, as in the examples below. 
 See [go-etcd][go-etcd] for a native go client. Or feel free to just use curl, as in the examples below.