On: Time is an illusion – challenges in distributed co...

[rogeryu]

Few programmers have read the most important paper in this area, Leslie Lamport's "Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System" (1978)

If you want to be one of the few:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/t...

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Don't stop there:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/p...

[Swizec → jacquesm]

And if you want an easier job of it, here's my summary: http://swizec.com/blog/week-7-time-clocks-and-ordering-of-ev...

[jacquesm → Swizec]

Oh cool, that's worth posting in its own right.

[neffy → jacquesm]

And don't forget Fisher,Lynch,Paterson:

https://groups.csail.mit.edu/tds/papers/Lynch/jacm85.pdf