Re:A More Flexible Paxos
by dragonwriter on Monday August 15, 2016 @07:08PM
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> Has it though?
AFAICT, Yes.
> I feel like many of the new distributed systems I read about are Raft based consensus.
Sure, and Raft has probably been gaining popularity even more than Paxos has. With more and more distributed systems and more attention on guarantees for such systems, its possible for both Paxos and Raft (and perhaps other techniques) to be getting more popular.
AFAICT, Yes.
> I feel like many of the new distributed systems I read about are Raft based consensus.
Sure, and Raft has probably been gaining popularity even more than Paxos has. With more and more distributed systems and more attention on guarantees for such systems, its possible for both Paxos and Raft (and perhaps other techniques) to be getting more popular.