Hey everyone! It’s been a little while since I last stopped by this amazing community. Back in high school, I spent a lot of time working through different problems, and now that I’ve wrapped up college and started my job, I’ve discovered that I really love diving into algorithms! However, there's one algorithm that has me scratching my head: Paxos. I’ve really tried to get a handle on it! I read Leslie Lamport’s paper, but the part about correctness still feels a bit murky, and I’m not quite sure how it connects with other distributed algorithms, like key-value stores or logs. Does anyone else feel the same way?

I’ve noticed that there’s a lot of material out there on algorithms like the red-black tree, both on this site and across the internet, and many books cover it well. However, I feel like there are some algorithms that don’t get the same attention, and it would be great to change that! There are so many talented people in this community who could grasp these concepts in no time. If anyone could contribute tutorials on these algorithms, it would really be a fantastic resource for those of us who love exploring new ideas but may not have a local community to discuss them with. Thank you!