It should be noted that the total ordering that Lamport clocks provide is fairly artificial (in fact it's best to say that there is no natural total ordering of

It should be noted that the total ordering that Lamport clocks provide is fairly artificial (in fact it's best to say that there is no natural total ordering of events in a distributed system). Agreed, though you do see them a lot in CRDTs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_type https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_.... Just about every non-trivial CRDT has something akin to a logical clock embedded inside it.