Re:The Paxos algorithm for consensus in a distributed system
by argvzero on Thursday May 31, 2012 @07:22PM
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If you're looking to actually implement Paxos, check out "Paxos Made Moderately Complex" by Robert van Renesse: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs7412/2011sp/paxos.pdf
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Re:The Paxos algorithm for consensus in a distributed system
by einarvollset on Thursday May 31, 2012 @11:04PM
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Robbert is indeed one of (if not the) smartest men you'll ever meet in relation to fault tolerance in distributed systems. However, if you're looking to build a fault tolerant consensus algorithm, you owe it to yourself to check out randomized consensus (which predates Paxos, and really is the same algorithm - just simpler)