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Thoughts on (Amazonian) leadership

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155 points stock_toaster | 4 comments | 01 Sep 25 18:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
1. lifeisstillgood ◴[01 Sep 25 19:57 UTC] No.45096062[source]▶
“Paxos as a service”

Ok. I have just spent 5 minutes noodling on that one and … I love it even if I cannot work out how to make it work …

Definitely coming back to that

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2. cperciva ◴[01 Sep 25 20:04 UTC] No.45096136[source]▶
To be clear, I'm not saying it has to be literally Paxos as a service. There's a bunch of ways you can take operations from different sources in a distributed system and produce a consensus view of what happened first. But aside from trivial and low-performance options (e.g. everyone contends on a single DynamoDB item and uses conditional writes) Amazon hasn't made any of the possibilities available.
3. xmprt ◴[01 Sep 25 20:07 UTC] No.45096164[source]▶
Isn't etcd or Zookeeper essentially Paxos as a service? Or maybe I'm missing exactly what's meant by this.
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4. maherbeg ◴[02 Sep 25 17:03 UTC] No.45105851[source]▶
etcd is raft, but zookeeper is paxos as a service. so maybe a hosted version since zookeeper can be troublesome for folks to operate.