The Journey of a Request in a Raft-Based KV Store"
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Originally published on: https://abdellani.dev/posts/2026-04-01-the-journey-of-a-request-in-a-raft-based-kv-store/ Introduction: This article comes after implementing labs 3 and 4 from the open MIT 6.584 course. We have a replicated KV server on top of the RAFT protocol, and we want to understand how the server works internally. To do so, I propose to follow all the steps that a request will pass through on the server before a client receives a response. The objective of building t