Clocks, Ordering & Causality

NTP skew, monotonic vs wall clocks, Lamport and vector clocks, hybrid logical clocks, and TrueTime.

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Question Tags Difficulty Success
1. Causal vs FIFO Ordering with Transitive Dependency
distributed-systemsordering +3
Easy 46%
2. Vector Clock Comparison and Concurrency
distributed-systemsordering +3
Medium 50%
3. Nine Versus Twelve
lamport-timestamphappens-before +1
Medium —
4. Causal Broadcast Delivery Condition
distributed-systemsordering +3
Medium 56%
5. The Write That Vanished
last-write-winsclock-skew +1
Medium —
6. Neither Vector Wins
vector-clockhappens-before +2
Medium —
7. TCP Per-Pair Connections and Broadcast Ordering
distributed-systemsordering +3
Hard 51%
8. Six Milliseconds Of Drift
truetimeclock-drift +2
Hard —
9. Waiting Out the Doubt
truetimeclock-skew +1
Hard —
10. Half An Algorithm
lamport-clockmutual-exclusion +2
Insane —

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