Practice - Lamport Timestamps (Logical Clocks)
Practice Questions
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What is the happens-before relation?
💡 Hint: Think about how events relate to one another in time.
What does a Lamport Timestamp consist of?
💡 Hint: Consider how each process keeps track of time.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What does a Lamport Timestamp ensure?
💡 Hint: Consider the role of causality in event ordering.
True or False: Lamport Timestamps can identify concurrent events.
💡 Hint: Think about what 'concurrent' means in this context.
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Challenge Problems
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Create a distributed application using Lamport Timestamps for managing events. Explain how you would handle message passing and state updates without global timestamps.
💡 Hint: Think about how to maintain order without a central control.
Hypothesize a scenario where relying solely on Lamport Timestamps could lead to an inconsistency in a distributed application.
💡 Hint: What could happen if events are perceived as ordered, but they aren't?
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