At a meetup just short of a year ago I was asked to post to the list about a Paxos over ZeroMQ side project I'd been working on. At the time, the implementation was roughly alpha quality and the code wasn't particularly clean but it seemed to be fairly well received. For those that are still interested, I'm pleased to say that the project is now pretty much complete. All of the major functionality is in place, the code has been cleaned up, and the documentation is in decent shape.
All of the other open-source Paxos implementations I've found are either horribly over-complicated or they inextricably commingle their application-specific logic with their handling of the Paxos algorithm. While trying to get up to speed on Paxos, I never did find a good, clean example of it's implementation and use. For that reason, I made a special effort to gear this implementation specifically for clarity and ease of understanding. The project is split into two separate repositories. One implements the bare Paxos algorithm (https://github.com/cocagne/paxos) and the other uses it on top of ZeroMQ (https://github.com/cocagne/zpax). Beyond being just generally useful libraries, I'm hoping these implementations will serve as approachable examples for others interested in the topic. Tom _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list zeromq-dev@lists.zeromq.org http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
