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		jen20 on Oct 27, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How you could have come up with Paxos yourself I really wish I could remember who to correctly attribute this quote to, but I heard it from Randy Shoup - paraphrased: Consensus protocols are either Paxos, Paxos with unnecesary additional cruft, or broken.

tkhattra on Oct 27, 2020 [–]

I think it was Mike Burrows, but I can't remember where I heard or read that.

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