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Every post I've written about hlc — 1 article, across Distributed Systems. Most recent: “Hybrid Logical Clocks: Making Last-Write-Wins Mean the Later Write.”

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Hybrid Logical Clocks: Making Last-Write-Wins Mean the Later Write

Wall-clock last-write-wins keeps the write from the faster clock, not the later event — and silently drops causally newer data under skew. These are my notes on rebuilding a Hybrid Logical Clock in Go: a 64-bit, monotonic, causal timestamp, why its counter stays bounded, and what it costs in CockroachDB-style uncertainty restarts.

Jul 8