Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System

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Leslie Lamport. "Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System." Communications of the ACM, volume 21, issue 7, pages 558–565, July 1978. doi:10.1145/359545.359563

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Jim Gray once told me that he had heard two different opinions of this paper: that it’s trivial and that it’s brilliant. I can’t argue with the former, and I am disinclined to argue with the latter. The origin of this paper was the note The Maintenance of Duplicate Databases (opens in new tab) by […]

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