Elixir Outlaws

Episode 86: Time is problematic

Elixir Outlaws

Show Notes

Chris has been drawing maps for his DnD game and he's pretty proud of them. Amos is trying to order events and has questions about hybrid logical clocks. This leads to a discussion of what ordering even is and why its such a problem in distributed systems.

A transcript is available for this episode on Binary Noggin's website: https://binarynoggin.com/blog/episode-86-time-is-problematic/ Support Elixir Outlaws Links: Hybrid Logical Clock overview

Toniq Systems HLC

k-sortable definition

Consistency Models

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