# Tendermint Links: [[Cosmos]] ## Discussion between [[Zaki Manian]] and detractors - FB eng: "I've run a distributed paxos-based service that could handle thousands of qps of traffic. Blockchain is a massive retrograde step to solve that problem." - [[Zaki Manian|Zaki]]: "Tendermint does 1000s of qps and doesn’t become corrupted if the leader gets pwned unlike your [[Paxos]] and [[Tendermint]] will do 10s of thousands of qps when we have made more performance engineering progress" - FB eng: "Looking forward to the white paper." - [[Zaki Manian|Zaki]]: "Deployed in production by numerous large scale users including a some big legacy tech companies. Facebook liked it so much they used the same architecture as inspiration for [[Diem]]" Additional by [[Henry de Valence]] - the development of practical, high-performance BFT systems by the blockchain ecosystem feels underappreciated, similarly to the way that the value of pervasive [[TLS]] was underappreciated - sure, maybe your specific context isn’t the maximally adversarial BFT one, but since it’s resilient in that context, it will almost certainly be resilient against your context’s failure modes by default, and resilient to cases you didn’t originally consider - in retrospect, looking back 10 years and seeing people argue about exactly which situations TLS was required seems really silly. just use the stronger tool all the time so you don’t have to worry about it - and, in retrospect, most of those arguments weren’t really about the value of TLS at all, but about the fact that it was annoying to use, and now that we have better tooling, nobody really cares as much. the same thing will happen with BFT systems