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Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System – Paper Review

by ekez on 7/24/23, 7:41 PM with 22 comments

  • by Phelinofist on 7/24/23, 8:44 PM

    Thanks for the link, really interesting!

    We have a distributed system (clouds & cars) that message events which need to be processed in order. However, the clock of some system participants (cars) are drifting quite often. We plan to use a logical clock for the ordering instead soon.

  • by andsoitis on 7/25/23, 1:34 AM

  • by reality_inspctr on 7/24/23, 10:26 PM

    this is great! very clever logic model.

    I wrote something I think is highly relevant about a distributed L1 for time, that you might enjoy, OP?

    [oc] https://www.seanmcdonald.xyz/p/the-clockchain-protocol-the-l...

  • by jpgvm on 7/25/23, 1:31 AM

    Possibly the most important distributed systems paper to read, along with the rest of Lamport naturally.

  • by frenchLeaf on 7/25/23, 2:45 AM

    What about ticsync?