A group of Byzantine generals, notoriously unreliable and prone to treachery, are trying to agree on lunch.

This situation usually leads to failures. They even invented the "Byzantine generals problem" around it! Why is it so important? Well, imagine having distributed systems that have to agree on something. Oh, wait... isn't it just the same condition?

This talk will be your hilarious guide through the world of consensus algorithms, focusing on Paxos and Raft.

I will show you some examples and talk about products and services using both the algorithms.