It's been many years that I haven't been working actively with databases anymore, but I have never heard about Raft or rq before. Is that system used by many / by significant players?
Well-written article. Introduces what the library is/does, gives background context, includes a high-level overview of the system, and demonstrates how it solves the problem.
A little off-topic, but I love that the first paragraph describes the project. Usually, posts exclude that information, and the landing is not of more help.
Cool! We use this but never had too much problems with disk usage (I/o or size). But, were only using to deploy configs across multiple nodes. And we read the local copy directly!
Version 9.0 already? To me this unfortunately signals lack of focus and/or disregard for backward compatibility, which means unnecessary churn for me as user of this project. Hard pass.