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How you could have come up with Paxos yourself
In the field of computer science, the Paxos algorithm is notorious for how difficult it is to understand. I had to learn the Paxos algorithm in my distributed systems class. I even have "implemented" it by translating Leslie Lamport's TLA+ to Python. But I didn't understand it until much much later.
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Oct 27, 2020 | How you could have come up with Paxos yourself by todsacerdoti | 227 | 53 |
