https://kanishk.io/tags/distributed-systems/ Runes of Undocumented Code Hugo 0.164.0 en-US https://kanishk.io/posts/the-part-time-parliament/ Sun, 18 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://kanishk.io/posts/the-part-time-parliament/ <h2 id="my-thoughts-as-i-read-the-paper">My thoughts as I read the paper</h2> <p>In this seminal work, Leslie Lamport describes the Paxos algorithm, which borrows its name and behavior from the way the ancient parliament of the Aegean island of Paxos conducted its affairs in regard to passing laws.</p> <p>The algorithm helps maintain a distributed log consisting of various entries across multiple nodes in a cluster. In practice, this is used to solve consistency issues in distributed databases.</p>