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1. dustin+A6[view] [source] 2013-11-13 01:52:39
>>pharkm+(OP)
I don't get how clocks are bad this from the article.

I get that syncing clocks across systems is hard and when it goes awry, unintended consequences are incurred.

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2. RickHu+29[view] [source] 2013-11-13 02:35:06
>>dustin+A6
There is, in fact, a TL;DR at the end:

> If your distributed database relies on clocks to pick a winner, you’d better have rock-solid time synchronization, and even then, it’s unlikely your business needs are served well by blindly selecting the last write that happens to arrive.

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