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Re:Paxos vs. Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed ... by ignoramous on Friday July 16, 2021 @02:38PM (#27859631)
> Basic Paxos, is well, too basic and people mostly run modifications of this to get higher throughput and better latencies. After those modifications, it does not look very different from Raft.

Alan Vermeulen, one of the founding AWS engineers, calls inventing newer solutions to distributed consensus an exercise in re-discovering Paxos.

https://youtu.be/QVvFVwyElLY?t=2367

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Re:Paxos vs. Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed ... by brickbrd on Monday July 19, 2021 @12:48PM (#27884716)
Even in AWS, its not a direct paper knock-off.
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