Paxos lecture (Raft user study)

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as a clear, lucid way to learn Paxos and Multi-Paxos, ideally alongside the companion Raft video.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Diego Ongaro

Topic

paxos consensus

Format

lecture

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

6

HN mentions in dataset

7

Recommendation years in dataset

2013–2024

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From the original HN conversations

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• One of the most lucid explanations of the Raft Consensus Algorithm that I've ever seen is the one in John Ousterhout and Diego Ongaro's Raft User Study[0]. The 2 videos do an excellent job of explaining both the Paxos and Raft algorithms and the key …

• I recently took a Distributed Systems course, and I also thought it was very interesting and unexpected how in the most basic form of Paxos, there is no concept of node roles or hierarchy like leader/follower, master/replica, etc. The base case is that all nodes …

• one other thing to keep in mind is that the underlying algorithms (zab and raft) provide different guarantees. for example, zookeeper/zab allows reading directly from followers with a guarantee to get at least a past value that won't be rolled back. this was one reason …