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Lamport Clocks

Logical Clocks and Time in Distributed Systems

April 9, 2026February 22, 2026 by Rahul Suryawanshi

Distributed systems have no global clock. Logical clocks help reason about ordering, causality, and concurrency without relying on physical time.

Categories Distributed Systems Tags Cloud Architecture, Distributed Systems, Event Ordering, Happens Before, Hybrid Logical Clocks, Lamport Clocks, Logical Clocks, System Design, Vector Clocks
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