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Paxos is so mistifyingly hard that Raft was invented as part of a project to understand Paxos (and the advisor and proponent of the project was John Ousterhout,
by joaogui1 3y ago
Paxos is so mistifyingly hard that Raft was invented as part of a project to understand Paxos (and the advisor and proponent of the project was John Ousterhout, who's pretty badass). There are also I believe a few papers trying to trying to explain Paxos more clearly
- joaogui1 3y agoJust as a quick source to my claims: 1. The raft paper is titled "In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm" 2. The abstract of this tutorial on Understanding Paxos https://www.ux.uis.no/~meling/papers/2013-paxostutorial-opodis.pdf https://www.ux.uis.no/~meling/papers/2013-paxostutorial-opod... 3. Lamport's own "Paxos made simple" https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/paxos-simple.pdf https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/paxos-simple.pdf