simple-paxos is a conceptual implementation of the Paxos algorithm focusing on the Paxos algorithm itself instead of the performance.
simple-paxos choose python to implement the algorithm because python is a default script environment on almost linux machine, you can run the code directly without any lib deps. simple-paxos implements an simple event loop to handler network packet event and timeout event. These allow you quickly know how the network works with a little epoll knowledge.
| complex things | why not |
|---|---|
| asyncio | need python3.x and the coroutine conception should be learned |
| C/C++ | need compile, os api is not in a nice form sepecially when set the ip address |
| node.js | need node, javascript sepecially the newest version is not so popular as the python |
- Linux with epoll
- Python2.7.x