I’m sure someone has talked about this and proven or disproven it, but I’ve always been a little uneasy with the truetime protocol. I mean it’s faster than Raft, but for the use case maybe we are trying to fix the wrong problem?

If two events are independent, it matters very little what order we record them in the system of record.

My whole career we have been building cause and effect at transaction time but when we debug we stare at log files and time stamps like we are reading tea leaves, trying to figure out what situation A led to corrupted data in row B.

Maybe there’s a way to record this stuff instead of time stamps? Something DVCS style. Or maybe it’s provably intractable.