On: Attention Is Off By One

[joaogui1]

Paxos is so mistifyingly hard that Raft was invented as part of a project to understand Paxos (and the advisor and proponent of the project was John Ousterhout, who's pretty badass). There are also I believe a few papers trying to trying to explain Paxos more clearly

[joaogui1 → joaogui1]

Just as a quick source to my claims:

1. The raft paper is titled "In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm"

2. The abstract of this tutorial on Understanding Paxos https://www.ux.uis.no/~meling/papers/2013-paxostutorial-opod...

3. Lamport's own "Paxos made simple" https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/paxos-simple.pdf