Skewed clocks

  • Fix
  • Quorum 14

Difficulty 3 of 5

Clock A is 300 ms ahead. A contact update reaches B before B writes its replacement at 0.1 seconds. Keep the newer causal write when the replicas settle.

0:00. The contact update was replaced by an older value. Graph: clock A runs 300 ms ahead of clock B.

Play level

HTTP/2Users100 req/sAPI server1 vCPU · 1 GBAPI server1 vCPU · 1 GB
HTTP/2HTTP/2Users100 req/sAPI server1 vCPU · 1 GBAPI server1 vCPU · 1 GB
The board at the start of the level
A lease with a fencing tokenTap to turn the fencing tokens on or off

Fencing tokens · lease 30 s · late write with token 33: rejected

Goals and limits

Lost writes
none
Monthly cost
under 20 USD/mo
Edit limit
2
Traffic
100 req/s

Concepts

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