Generalizing Paxos Across Distributed Consensus

Reactive Summit · Talk · 35 min · 2018 · YouTube title: Liberating Distributed Consensus - Heidi Howard

Why it's here

HN recommends it as an illuminating, approachable explanation of distributed consensus.

What it covers

Heidi Howard's Reactive Summit 2018 talk on generalizing Paxos by weakening its original requirements. She shows Paxos is one point on a broad spectrum of consensus approaches.