Author here, thanks for the kind words! I think one reason we ended up here is that it is a genuinely difficult technical problem even to analyze the solutions.

Author here, thanks for the kind words! I think one reason we ended up here is that it is a genuinely difficult technical problem even to analyze the solutions. One of my hopes for this series of posts is that it makes the evaluation process more straightforward, particularly for people who do not have a strong background in distributed systems algorithms.