Does it bother you when all your microservice logs show up out of order in your log analysis tool because your system clocks aren't synchronized? Did you ever wonder what time it was when the dotted version vector on a piece of data became 2.4.5? If so, then this is the talk for you!

Time is a notoriously difficult concept in distributed systems. Perfect clock synchronization is impossible, and most logical timestamp schemes (like Lamport clocks) don't bear a relationship to "wall...

In a long-lived distributed system, the challenges of scaling shift from simple load (“can we handle peak load on New Year’s Eve?”) to more organizational problems of managing failure domains and development complexity. Changing one binary is hard enough – spreading dependencies across 15 or 50 poses a new set of challenges. From breaking systems into microservices to engineering for organizational resilience, this session discusses long-game approaches to making sure systems and...