raft

Implementation of Raft servers as described in Raft Extended Paper.

It covers following features.

1. Leader Election
2. Log Replication
3. Log Compaction

Following RPCs are implemented as describe in figure 2 of the Paper.

1. RequestVote
2. AppendEntries
3. InstallSnapshot

This implementation is tested locally by connecting a number of raft servers in a cluster and by simulating server failures, delayed and unreliable network