Leader Election Visualizer

Bully vs Ring vs Raft. Trigger elections, simulate failures.

Compare Bully, Ring, and Raft leader election. Use the mode buttons to switch between electing and killing/reviving nodes.

💡Click a node to kill it, then trigger an election. Try different algorithms to see how they elect leaders.

Raft Consensus: Candidate requests votes from peers. Majority required to become leader. Randomized timeouts prevent split votes. Used in etcd, CockroachDB, Consul.

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