Part 10 · Distributed Transactions and Consensus
TrueTime and Commit Wait
TrueTimeUncertainty intervalCommit waitExternal consistency
Spanner's trick: know how wrong the clock can be and wait out the uncertainty before committing. Why that gives globally ordered transactions.
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