(2018) For more background on the first part, the original spanner paper from 2012 goes into some detail on the hardware time sync: https://www.usenix.org/conf

(2018) For more background on the first part, the original spanner paper from 2012 goes into some detail on the hardware time sync: https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi12/technical-sessions/presentation/corbett https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi12/technical-sessions/...