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Understanding the Paxos Consensus Algorithm Part III: Raft’s Answer to Crashes,...
Paxos proved consensus is possible. Raft made it practical — one leader, clean logs, no wasted work. From Alice & Bob’s lock battl...
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Understanding the Paxos Consensus Algorithm Part II: Handling Crashes, Partition...
Paxos guarantees safety but not always liveness: lost commits starve new proposers, races stall, partitions halt progress, and old...
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Understanding the Paxos Consensus Algorithm - Part I: How Distributed Systems Re...
An attempt to understand working of Paxos Algorithm. This is the first part of the three part series which walks through the strai...