Paxos vs. Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus?
Heidi Howard is incredible and her work on distributed consensus is illuminating. I think she has actually successfully cracked the cookie of "making consensus easy". <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTHOwgpMIiU" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTHOwgpMIiU</a>