Paxos Made Simple

Paxos has become a standard by which other consensus systems in distributed computing are compared. Let's all get a basic shared understanding from which we can move forward.

We'll study Paxos Made Simple. Written by Leslie Lamport (of Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System), this is an extremely approachable paper.

PDF: https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master/distributed_systems/paxos-made-simple.pdf

This will be a group activity, so please spend a few minutes with the paper beforehand. We would love your input!