What is Different in a Distributed System?
Understand the challenges of time management in distributed systems, focusing on how event ordering differs due to the absence of a global clock. Learn why decentralized clocks drift and how this affects system synchronization and investigation of events.
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Usecase of time in software systems
One of the main use cases of time in a software system is to determine the order of different events.
In practice, this can mean very different things.
Examples
A system might want to impose an order to ...