SE Radio 560: Sugu Sougoumarane on Distributed SQL with Vitess
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The Importance of Flex Paxos in Consensus Systems
Raft is better because it also includes failure detection, which Paxos doesn't. Flex Paxos gives you a huge flexibility in terms of your deployments. At YouTube, we had like 75 replicas for each primary. We have never been in a situation where both the node that accepted the right and the node that saved the data fail at the same time.
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