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hybrid-logical-clocks
- Oct 24, 2025 Timestamp Oracles and Global Transaction Order How distributed systems assign a total order to transactions without a shared clock, what happens when the oracle is unreachable, and why the ordering guarantee is not the same as real-time order. distributed systems
- Aug 30, 2024 Hybrid Logical Clocks: Physical Time With a Logical Counter How HLC timestamps stay close to wall-clock time while preserving causality, why the counter only appears inside the uncertainty window, and what a bounded timestamp costs. distributed systems