Author: alekseyc

Paxos vs. Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus?

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2025-12-302021-07-14 by alekseyc

paxos-vs.-raft:-have-we-reached-consensus-on-distributed-consensus?

In our 54th reading group meeting, we were looking for an answer to an important question in the distributed systems community: “What about Raft?” We looked at the “Paxos vs Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus?” paper to … Read more

Scalable but Wasteful, or why fast replication protocols are slow

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2025-12-302021-07-12 by alekseyc

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In the last decade or so, quite a few new state machine replication protocols emerged in the literature and the internet. I am “guilty” of this myself, with the PigPaxos appearing in this year’s SIGMOD and the PQR paper at … Read more