[ajessup]

I'd be curious to know how this compares to Google's (internal ) TrueTime service[1], and if it allows for development of globally consistent but highly available storage systems like Spanner.

[1] https://research.google.com/pubs/pub45855.html

[wahnfrieden]

Considering this coincided with announcements of multi-region multi-master DBs (Aurora, DynamoDB) it seems likely.