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		Evbn on Feb 9, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MIT 6.824 Distributed Systems labs rewritten in Go How is Paxos hard? Inventing Paxos is hard. Implementing it is implementing a well-specified state machine.

rsc on Feb 9, 2013 [–]

If it was so easy papers like this would not exist: http://research.google.com/archive/paxos_made_live.html

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