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Machines are better served with explicit synchronisation (paxos, distributed transactions) or not at all (eventual consistency) Using atomic clocks to sync dis
by xyzzyz 11y ago
Machines are better served with explicit synchronisation (paxos, distributed transactions) or not at all (eventual consistency)
Using atomic clocks to sync distributed systems is actually done in practice.
http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/spanner-osdi2012.pdf http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...
- batou 11y agoUtterly insane IMHO. If there's a single error in any temporal data, what happens? Even relatively reliable frequency/time standards (HP/Agilent come to mind) aren't 100% available.