 Paxos (computer science)

Paxos is a family of protocols used in computer science for reaching consensus in a network of unreliable or asynchronous processes. It was proposed by Leslie Lamport in the late 1970s and is particularly notable for being one of the foundational algorithms in distributed systems. The primary goal of Paxos is to ensure that a group of nodes (or servers) can agree on a single value even in the presence of failures or network partitions.