Paxos Made Simple (2001)[pdf]

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Paxosconsensus algorithmdistributed systemsstate machinefault tolerancedistributed consensus.

Author: grep_it

Date: 7/9/2026

Article Summary:
This article presents the Paxos algorithm, a consensus algorithm for implementing fault-tolerant distributed systems, and its application to implementing a state machine.