I was asked this question in an interview and was unable to answer it. How does FB messenger order the messages on user side when two messages are concurrent in order to avoid view difference in di...

I understand the need for vector clocks in terms of scalar logical clocks failing to provide enough information to tell whether there is an update conflict in a key value store update for example. ...

For my code which is running on different devices, i need to determine the ordering of messages which are sent between those devices. Therefore I would like to use vector clocks since I read vector...

We have a large high-performance software system which consists of multiple interacting Java processes (not EJBs). Each process can be on the same machine or on a different machine. Certain event...