Another top notch Paxos post from the inventor of UPaxos covers leader election in Paxos. The outlined approach is similar to that used in TRex which is based on a sloppy timeout mechanism. This post will get into why this is a must read for consensus fans.
David Turner the inventor of UPaxos has posted a great blog post about monitoring Paxos clusters. It’s a must read for consensus aficionados.
So far on my spike into Rust we have been on a roll. Next on the bucket list is an embedded disk backed B-tree database to act as the Paxos journal for TRex. This is where I have hit my first bump in the road. Read the rest of this entry »
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