Service Governance and etcd: Concepts, Raft & BoltDB Implementation, and Large‑Scale Practices at Baidu
This article introduces service governance fundamentals, explains how etcd’s Raft‑based consensus and BoltDB storage work, compares etcd with ZooKeeper and Consul, and describes Baidu’s large‑scale, high‑availability, high‑performance service‑governance platform built on these technologies.