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Spanner depends on having a time source with bounded error to maintain consistency. Google accomplishes this by having GPS and atomic clocks in several datacent
by synack 10mo ago
Spanner depends on having a time source with bounded error to maintain consistency. Google accomplishes this by having GPS and atomic clocks in several datacenters.
https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/spanner-osdi2012.pdf https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/45855.pdf https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
- londons_explore 10mo agoAnd more importantly, the tighter the time bound, the higher the performance, so more accurate clocks easily pay for themselves in other saved infrastructure costs to service the same number of users.
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