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heidihoward

That's a great summary. Thanks for answering the question for me!
It was actually the PaPoC workshop[1] that asked me to record a short talk and posted on YouTube. They did a wonderful job!

[1] https://papoc-workshop.github.io/2020/

Diego wrote a great summary of the differences between Viewstamped Replication[1,2] and Raft on the Raft mailing list a few years ago[3].

[1] http://pmg.csail.mit.edu/papers/vr.pdf [2] http://pmg.csail.mit.edu/papers/vr-revisited.pdf [3] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/raft-dev/cBNLTZT2q8o

Whilst working on Ios, I started work on a theoretical result which became known as Flexible Paxos[1]. Unfortunately, I never had time to go back to working on Ios. Maybe someday.

[1] https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2017/7094/pdf/LIPIc...