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Spanner may be hard to set up even with source code available. It relies on atomic clocks for reliable ordering of events.
by praptak 4y ago
Spanner may be hard to set up even with source code available. It relies on atomic clocks for reliable ordering of events.
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- wbl 4y agoAtomic clocks aren't that exotic, and a GPS disciplined ovenized quartz oscillator will do just fine outside of a disruption. The hard part is getting the right sampling semantics, requiring end to end error analysis.
- dan-robertson 4y agoIt’s pretty hard to get well synchronised clocks between servers in a datacentre.