I agree that Paxos is much simpler than many people apparently think. It certainly didn't help that the original paper is almost completely useless for learning

I agree that Paxos is much simpler than many people apparently think. It certainly didn't help that the original paper is almost completely useless for learning Paxos. I highly recommend that anyone interesting in learning Paxos study this pseudo code from MIT's distributed systems class; it was the single thing that helped me understand Paxos most: http://nil.csail.mit.edu/6.824/2015/notes/paxos-code.html http://nil.csail.mit.edu/6.824/2015/notes/paxos-code.html