Distributed consensus revised (part II) Howard, PhD thesis In today’s post we’re going to be looking at chapter 3 of Dr Howard’s thesis, which is a tour ("systematisation of knowledge", SoK) of some of the major known revisions to the classic Paxos algorithm. Negative responses (NACKs) In classic Paxos acceptors only send replies to proposer ... Continue Reading

Distributed consensus revised Howard, PhD thesis Welcome back to a new term of The Morning Paper! To kick things off, I’m going to start by taking a look at Dr Howard’s PhD thesis, ‘Distributed consensus revised’. This is obviously longer than a standard paper, so we’ll break things down over a few days. As the ... Continue Reading