Understanding the Paxos Consensus Algorithm Part II: Handling Crashes, Partitions, and Lost Messages

Written by hacker41296476 | Published 2025/09/02
Tech Story Tags: consensus-algorithms | paxos | distributed-systems | paxos-consensus-algorithm | consensus-edge-cases | consensus-failures | raft-vs-paxos | distributed-systems-consensus

TLDRPaxos guarantees safety but not always liveness: lost commits starve new proposers, races stall, partitions halt progress, and old messages get rejected. Raft fixes this with leader election — more in Part 3.via the TL;DR App
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Written by hacker41296476 | Despaired ManUtd fan
Published by HackerNoon on 2025/09/02
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