Stoppable Paxos

Source: PDF Authors: Dahlia Malkhi, Leslie Lamport, Lidong Zhou Date: 2008-04-28

Core idea

Stoppable Paxos introduces a stopping command that creates a hard barrier, allowing replicated state machines to reconfigure as a sequence of epochs rather than as blurred partial transitions.

Harness takeaway

Policy, protocol, or membership epochs in the studio should change via explicit stop-and-reconfigure barriers, not silent drift.