There are huge gaps between the scientific paper and how you actually operate and scale Paxos from an engineering point of view. See "Paxos Made Live - An Engineering Perspective" by Tushar Chandra et.al.
What do you guys think about this project? Digitalizing your retailer receipts. It seems to me a huge project where they will be able to get SKU level data out of it. It seems to be very cool.
lots of well known it people have never finished one, but they have made AMAZING things.... so go ahead and do something real good and people wont mind about a degree...
Paxos also has drawbacks like being slow or lacking liveness guarantees. Some alternatives are discussed in https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/leader-election-in-d...