Consensus Protocols: Paxos — Paper TrailYou can't really read two articles about distributed systems today without someone mentioning the Paxos algorithm. Google use it in Chubby, Yahoo use it, or something a bit like it, in ZooKeeper and it seems that it's considered the ne plus ultra of consensus algorithms. It also comes with a reputation as being fantastically difficult to understand - a subtle, complex algorithm that is only proper
