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noelh on Feb 9, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: MIT 6.824 Distributed Systems labs rewritten in Go

It appears that Paxos will be used in the third lab, http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/labs/lab-3.html.

jeremyis on Feb 9, 2013 [–]

In the 2010 version of this course, we implemented paxos on one of the later labs. It was considered one of the hardest I think.

Evbn on Feb 9, 2013 | [–]

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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