[dilyevsky]

> It’s decisions regarding how the cluster maintains state that hamstring it

Jed, you keep repeating this like it's true, but it's not actually so. Here's an excerpt from Borg paper (which David co-authored btw ;-)):

> A single elected master per cell serves both as the Paxos leader and the state mutator, handling all operations that change the cell’s state, such as submitting a job or terminating a task on a machine.

And while we're at it, I don't know what it has to do with FauxMaster since it ran single replica and the passage about C++ is just pure fud.

[elvinyung]

Just curious, does Borgmaster use Chubby, or is it a completely separate Paxos store?

[dilyevsky]

It’s using Chubby for locking (it’s actually next sentence in that Borg paper) and some othe things not related to quorum that i cant go into. This is different from kube master that uses etcd for everything but in terms of performance it’s not a big deal because elections dont happen often (and youd be surprised how many ppl run k8s with a single master setup, even GKE)