Raft in Go (MIT 6.5840)

This repository contains an implementation of the Raft consensus algorithm in Go for the MIT 6.5840 Distributed Systems course.

Implemented Features

• 3A: Leader Election and Heartbeats
• 3B: Log Replication
• 3C: Persistence
• 3D: Log Compaction with Snapshots

Running Tests

The core Raft implementation is in the raft1/ directory. To run the tests:

go test

To run tests for a specific part (e.g., 3A), you can use the -run flag:

go test -run 3A