The Paxos paper...I mean it seems funny, especially so to the author's academic audience who get all the references? From the distributed systems class I took,

The Paxos paper...I mean it seems funny, especially so to the author's academic audience who get all the references? From the distributed systems class I took, the main takeaway was Paxos seems inaccessible mainly due to the byzantine writing style. We also read Paxos Made Simple and Paxos Made Live, and when it came time to actually implement anything, nobody used the original paper at all. So yeah, the original paper might be fun or funny, but not the easiest for understanding the basis for consensus protocols.