Paxos Made Live - An Engineering Perspective (2006 Invited Talk)

Tushar Deepak Chandra
Robert Griesemer
Joshua Redstone
Proceedings of the 26th Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, ACM press (2007)

Abstract

We describe our experience in building a fault-tolerant data-base using
the Paxos consensus algorithm. Despite the existing literature in
the field, building such a database proved to be non-trivial. We
describe selected algorithmic and engineering problems encountered,
and the solutions we found for them. Our measurements indicate that
we have built a competitive system.