The papers and talks[1] by Heidi Howard and Richard Mortier, in particular “Paxos vs Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus?”[2,3] and “Flexib

The papers and talks[1] by Heidi Howard and Richard Mortier, in particular “Paxos vs Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus?”[2,3] and “Flexible Paxos”[4,5], are what finally made things click for me. A real implementation also needs other stuff[6], though, such as dynamic membership and state machine replication, which I still don’t know how to do. [1] https://fpaxos.github.io/ https://fpaxos.github.io/ [2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3380787.3393681 https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3380787.3393681 or https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.05074 https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.05074 [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K6kt39wyH0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K6kt39wyH0 [4] https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2016.25 https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2016.25 or https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.06696 https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.06696 [5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6NG_1HM0lA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6NG_1HM0lA [6] https://github.com/heidihoward/distributed-consensus-reading-list https://github.com/heidihoward/distributed-consensus-reading...