Phew! I always thought I was the only one who thought Paxos was incomprehensible. I also recently learned that Google's version on Paxos is much simplified and

Phew! I always thought I was the only one who thought Paxos was incomprehensible. I also recently learned that Google's version on Paxos is much simplified and similar to Raft (mentioned as an aside in talk about Spanner as same conference[1]. [1] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/spanner-distributed-google http://www.infoq.com/presentations/spanner-distributed-googl...