The Paxos algorithm, when presented in plain English, is very simple [Audio Blog Post]

This is the audio version of a blog post, published on www.mydistributed.systems, by Mohammad Roohitavaf.

Consensus is one of the fundamental problems in distributed systems. In this episode, we want to see what is consensus and review the most famous consensus algorithm—Paxos. we will see that despite exaggeration about its complexities, Paxos, at least the singe-decree Paxos that aims to achieve consensus on a single value, is actually very intuitive and easy to understand.

Blog Post: https://www.mydistributed.systems/2021/04/paxos.html