Developer Says Designing Another Consensus Algorithm Is a Cry for Help
_xjdr · x · 2026-07-27
A developer jokes that if you ever hear them say, “let’s make another, better, distributed consensus algo and service,” it should be treated as a cry for help — because they are already deep in the pain of Paxos consensus.
It is a compact technical joke about how notoriously hard consensus systems are to design and implement.
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