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Distributed Consensus
Data Skeptic
Is Paxos Really a Distributed Consensus Solution?
Paxos is an algorithm for solving the problem of distributed consensus. It was proposed by Turing Award winner Leslie Lamport in a paper titled part time parliament. So it's a really difficult problem to solve, but such an important and powerful primitive if we can get it right. And I know the term no sequel, I'm sure you have some relationship to that. Would you comment on it and maybe frame how this sort of umbrella of no sequel solutions relate to distributed solutions?
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