Project Sherlock

Paper

2014

In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm

Diego Ongaro & John Ousterhout

Presents Raft, designed so that consensus can actually be taught and implemented correctly, unlike Paxos.

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If this is the wrong level

Too easy? Go hereThe Part-Time ParliamentLeslie Lamport, 1998The original Paxos paper: a protocol for agreeing a value among unreliable processors, told as a parable about a parliament.

Filed under Distributed Systems in Computer Science.