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Vector Clocks: So what time is it?
In last 2 posts, we have seen how time is a hard thing to calculate in a distributed systems and…
Category: Distributed Systems Theory
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Lamport Logical Clock: One after the another. But not together.
“Using a clock to model causality is like using a banana to model a nuclear reactor.” – Leslie Lamport As…
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How does your computer know what time it is and why will it break your distributed systems?
Something that has always amused me is how does a computer know what time it is even when it is…