It's unbelievable how hard to grasp distributed systems are. I recently implemented Paxos in Rust and at certain points I literally thought I was losing my mind.
When you read Paxos Made Simple it really all seems so, well, simple. But then you get inconsistent commits and look at the traces of what happened and just go "How?!"
When you read Paxos Made Simple it really all seems so, well, simple. But then you get inconsistent commits and look at the traces of what happened and just go "How?!"