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Logical Clocks - Documentation

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Guide to Aeron Transport, Aeron Archive and Aeron Cluster with samples and usage guidance

Logical Clocks ¶ Important Lamport and Vector Clocks have no relation to a physical clock. They cannot be associated with wall time. Vector Clocks and their simpler relative Lamport Clocks help us understand order across multiple streams and processes. These can be used to construct reliable distributed systems without Aeron Cluster. Lamport Clocks ¶ Back in the late 1970's Leslie Lamport wrote a paper in which he introduced logical clocks. The paper had three main points: firstly, if a distributed system is built up of multiple independent servers, and some of the servers never inte

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