A global map from shard (predicate) to the IP of the instance that handles it has to be maintained. For this, we need consensus as this map has to be consistent among all the nodes in the cluster. To achieve consensus we use RAFT library from etcd ( https://godoc.org/github.com/coreos/etcd/raft ) A p…

Shard discovery using RAFT

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