Combining Paxos and PaxosLease

Marton Trencseni - Mon 06 April 2026 • Tagged with lamport, paxos, multipaxos, paxoslease, lease, distributed, consensus, durability, python, flask

The article walks through the integration of durable Paxos with PaxosLease to arrive at a small master-based replicated state machine: Paxos decides the command log, PaxosLease decides who is allowed to append to it, and clients must discover the current master before submitting writes.

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Multi-Paxos with Disk Persistence

Marton Trencseni - Sun 22 February 2026 • Tagged with lamport, paxos, multipaxos, distributed, consensus, durability, python, flask

This post extends the simple Multi-Paxos implementation with disk persistence, ensuring acceptor promises and the replicated log survive restarts, and showing how log replay restores state after crashes.

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