A Brief History of Concensus, 2PC, and Transaction Commit
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[ 2007-June-16 21:50 ]
If you are interested in the theory behind distributed concensus or the Paxos algorithm, I recommend reading A Brief History of Concensus, 2PC, and Transaction Commit. It is brief and does a good job putting the history in a logical order.