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Module 04: Raft Consensus EngineLesson 18 of 24

Leader Election, Heartbeat Fanout & Log Replication under Network Partitions

// Simulating split-brain quorum failure in Go test harness
=== RUN TestRaftPartitionRecovery
✓ Node 1 (Follower) transitioning to Candidate (term=3)
✓ RequestVote RPC broadcasted to peer nodes [2, 3]
✓ Quorum established: Majority votes received (2/3)
→ State: LEADER established for term 3
Interactive benchmark: 45,000 ops/secTest Suite Passed

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