There are huge gaps between the scientific paper and how you actually operate and scale Paxos from an engineering point of view. See "Paxos Made Live - An Engin

There are huge gaps between the scientific paper and how you actually operate and scale Paxos from an engineering point of view. See "Paxos Made Live - An Engineering Perspective" by Tushar Chandra et.al. Paxos also has drawbacks like being slow or lacking liveness guarantees. Some alternatives are discussed in https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/leader-election-in-distributed-systems/ https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/leader-election-in-d...