Leaving a shameless plug for a listing of Paxos variants I wrote (and recently updated): https://vadosware.io/post/paxosmon-gotta-concensus-them-all/ https://v

Leaving a shameless plug for a listing of Paxos variants I wrote (and recently updated): https://vadosware.io/post/paxosmon-gotta-concensus-them-all/ https://vadosware.io/post/paxosmon-gotta-concensus-them-all/ https://vadosware.io/post/paxosmon-2-the-journey-continues/ https://vadosware.io/post/paxosmon-2-the-journey-continues/ If you want to write a consistent distributed system or replicated state machine there are roughly two choices - two phases commit (“2PC”) and Paxos (there are many variants). Lamport clocks are one of the stepping stones to Paxos (along with the FLP result). It’s a fun field of study