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Re:Paxos vs. Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed ... by isubasinghe on Friday July 16, 2021 @09:46PM (#27862976)
What do you mean by bottom turtle? Chubby itself needs something like Paxos for state replication.
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Re:Paxos vs. Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed ... by fred256 on Saturday July 17, 2021 @05:13PM (#27868914)
What I meant was that I thought any system that required some form of distributed locking or consensus, did so by building on top of Chubby (which does Paxos), not by implementing Paxos directly.
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