Leaderless Consensus
Data Skeptic
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Do Leaderless Paxos?
Paxos protocols have been proposed with the leader so that you can have domination in fewer communication steps. What differentiates a leaderless Paxos is that you remove the requirement for a leader. Consistency wise, we are still able to get linearizability. We don't lose anything per se but however, the protocol itself gets more complex and more nuanced and subtle.
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