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Re:Open-sourcing a more precise time appliance by mananaysiempre on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @08:34AM (#28141241)
To improve the performance of their distributed systems by imposing stronger assumptions than full asynchronicity on their environment, I expect. (See also Google’s Spanner.)
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Re:Open-sourcing a more precise time appliance by abyagowi on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @09:28AM (#28141698)
Of course we go inspired by the Google Spanner project and what they have published over a decade ago. Hats off to the Google Spanner team
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Re:Open-sourcing a more precise time appliance by alpb on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @06:56PM (#28149040)
It seems Google has a better time determination method than the initial TrueTime used in Spanner now. https://www.usenix.org/system/files/osdi20-li_yuliang.pdf
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Re:Open-sourcing a more precise time appliance by mananaysiempre on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @03:04PM (#28146239)
Sure, I didn’t intend to make any deep point here; I don’t think I have any deep points to make in this particular area, honestly :) I just wanted to drop a set of easily searchable terms for motivation that might not have been made explicit in your writeup (probably because it’s quite tangential to it—metrology and distributed systems are both fascinating but don’t really share a lot of ideas).
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