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idorosenlast Saturday at 11:47 PM1 replyview on HN

Yup! I was referring to the original TrueTime/Spanner papers, not whatever's currently deployed. The original paper makes reference to distributed ordering guarantees at the milliseconds' scale precision, which implies many more transactions in flight in the uncertain state and coarser distributed ordering guarantees than the much tighter upper bound you can set with nanoseconds' precision and microseconds' comms latency...


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vlovich123yesterday at 6:19 AM

More than a decade of progress, probably in no small part from Google pushing vendors to improve hardware :)

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