为什么分布式系统没有完美时钟：从Lamport到TrueTime的四十年博弈
1978年，Leslie Lamport在《Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System》论文的开篇写道：“A distributed system can be described as one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable.” 他当时大概没想到，这篇论文定义的"happened-before"关系，会成为分布式系统此后近五十年的基石。 ...