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# Poornachandra Kashi

@poornakashi · Bengaluru, India · Joined September 2026

### [What is Raft Consensus: Understand RAFT without breaking your brain](https://techwithkashi.hashnode.dev/what-is-raft-consensus-understand-raft-without-breaking-your-brain?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Understand the Raft consensus algorithm without the jargon. Learn how leader election and log replication power distributed systems like Kubernetes.

5 min read · [techwithkashi.hashnode.dev](https://techwithkashi.hashnode.dev/what-is-raft-consensus-understand-raft-without-breaking-your-brain?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

[Oct 11](https://hashnode.com/posts/what-is-raft-consensus-understand-raft-without-breaking-your-brain/6acb70851297b224314281e5)

### [What Netflix's Write-Ahead Log Taught Me About Building Reliable Data Systems](https://techwithkashi.hashnode.dev/what-netflix-s-write-ahead-log-taught-me-about-building-reliable-data-systems?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Netflix built a pluggable, distributed write-ahead log to fix data consistency across Cassandra, Kafka, and EVCache. Here's how it works.

6 min read · [techwithkashi.hashnode.dev](https://techwithkashi.hashnode.dev/what-netflix-s-write-ahead-log-taught-me-about-building-reliable-data-systems?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

[Sep 4](https://hashnode.com/posts/what-netflix-s-write-ahead-log-taught-me-about-building-reliable-data-systems/6a9b4355d9be8041e336497f)