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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.

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 ...