<story><title>Why use Paxos instead of Raft?</title><url>https://neon.tech/blog/paxos/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mgdev</author><text>I used to work in the orbit of a distinguished eng at AWS who was famous for saying something to the effect of, &amp;quot;At the bottom of any scaled distributed system is either Paxos, or a bug.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Why use Paxos instead of Raft?</title><url>https://neon.tech/blog/paxos/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chucky_z</author><text>Interesting reasoning!  I had a similar thought about why raft doesn’t allow observers the other day.&lt;p&gt;I used observers with Gluster previously and went from annoying split brain scenarios to flawless clusters just by adding a few, and their resource usage was basically nothing.</text></comment>