Introduction Paxos is one of the oldest, simplest, and most versatile algorithms in the field of distributed consensus. It has long been considered the gold-standard in this domain and dozens of papers and articles have been written to describe its various applications, optimizations, and usage techniques. However, despite the volume of literature that has been generated on this subject in the las
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