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by bashcoder 4445 days ago
I listed what I like. "Excites" is your word.

I guess what I meant by "from scratch" is that they aren't burdened by legacy code, and aren't limited to using the Paxos algorithm.

If you look at Deis, for example, it basically outsources a lot of node management to Chef Server, which in my view creates a great deal of technical debt on day one.

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You read negative connotations into 'excites'. That wasn't intended.

I was just curious, since 'from scratch' can just as well mean 'untested' although I certainly agree that it sometimes is the Right Thing. The reference to Go was another thing that threw me off, since I rarely (admittedly .. sometimes) judge software projects by the language it is written in.

Thank you for the answer and some more references.

> and aren't limited to using the Paxos algorithm

ZK uses the ZAB protocol, which is similar but not the same as Paxos.

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ZOOKEEPER/Zab+vs...