Things like this are interesting for a couple of reasons. Synchronizing clocks in the network and even attaching the current time to packets is supported with t

Things like this are interesting for a couple of reasons. Synchronizing clocks in the network and even attaching the current time to packets is supported with the correct hardware (PPS). This is extremely reliable (when ordering is important, not necessarily for keeping time). What makes solutions like this article interesting is that this is at the application level, while there are synchronization problems you can solve at the hardware level when you control the hardware. Since moving things to the cloud, it’s as though we’ve forgotten about these technologies that have been around for over 20 years.