SwiftPaxos: Fast Geo-Replicated State Machines, in NSDI 2024, proposes a Paxos variant for networks with high latency, and different latencies between different pairs of nodes. Here’s a video of my presentation to the DistSys Reading Group, and a written review of the paper below. --- Table Of Contents Previous Paxi Paxos, as you know, is Leslie Lamport’s solution to the problem of consensus among unreliable nodes. The original Paxos achieved consensus on a single value (or “decree”),...
