Sure, but it looks like he intends it to eventually be a professional grade product. Disk-backed durability can be added, but adding distributed/failover capability should be designed in from the beginning.
And nobody's ever going to trust your distributed capability if you implement RAFT yourself. You need to build upon something trusted or convince Aphyr to run Jepsen on your implementation. etcd is a common thing to build upon, and even it is only partially trusted.
And nobody's ever going to trust your distributed capability if you implement RAFT yourself. You need to build upon something trusted or convince Aphyr to run Jepsen on your implementation. etcd is a common thing to build upon, and even it is only partially trusted.