
About this episode
Computer Science research fellow of Cambridge University, Heidi Howard discusses Paxos, Raft, and distributed consensus in distributed systems alongside with her work "Paxos vs. Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus?"
She goes into detail about the leaders in Paxos and Raft and how The Raft Consensus Algorithm actually inspired her to pursue her PhD.
Paxos vs Raft paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.05074
Leslie Lamport paper "part-time Parliament"
https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/lamport-paxos.pdf
Leslie Lamport paper "Paxos Made Simple"
https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/paxos-simple.pdf
Twitter : @heidiann360
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