paxos vs raft reading group [2ceba35b]

link: charap.co/reading-group-paxos-vs-raft-have-we-reached-consensus-on-distributed-consensus/

• using raft terminology to describe paxos
• raft has weird situation when majority-accepted but not committed value may get chopped off due to leader churn

states that:

• paxos is hard to understand because the language is obtuse, raft was written with an engineering audience in mind
• raft has significantly more reference implementations

• leader election efficiency

  • cloudflare outage
• raft may be an implementation of multi-paxos

• Wang et al: On the Parallels between Paxos and Raft, and how to Port Optimizations

  • can you port raft optimizations back into paxos
• what other algorithms are out there? epaxos
• which one is more teachable?