The Index Is a Bet You Made at Write Time
Search feels instantaneous. We type a few words and hit enter. Millions of documents collapse into a neat list of results in less than a second. It gives the illusion of a system that heard your reque
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Hybrid Logical Clocks: Having your cake and eating it, too
Part 4: How reality forces us to bring time back
Constructing Order Without Time
Part 3: How distributed systems track causality
Ordering ≠ time
Part 2: If timestamps lie, what actually determines order?
Why time breaks distributed systems
Part 1: Why timestamps lie and ordering events isn’t as simple as it looks
