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What Is Clock Skew? Why It Breaks Distributed Transactions (and How YugabyteDB Protects Correctness)

Jim KnicelyJanuary 16, 2026

TL;DR Clock skew doesn’t corrupt data in YugabyteDB… but it will stop your cluster to protect correctness. This tradeoff is critical for […]

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Running YugabyteDB Safely on VMware: A Practical DRS & Time-Sync Checklist

Jim KnicelyJanuary 11, 2026

Why this follow-up tip exists In Tip #1, Motion, DRS, and Clock Skew… Why Distributed Databases Aren’t “Just Another VM”, it was […]

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vMotion, DRS, and Clock Skew… Why Distributed Databases Aren’t “Just Another VM”

Jim KnicelyJanuary 11, 2026

TL;DR (for the impatient) ● VMware DRS and vMotion are optimized for stateless or loosely stateful workloads ● Temporary clock skew during […]

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Monitoring Clock Synchronization in YugabyteDB with a Simple Bash Script

Jim KnicelyAugust 7, 2025

In a distributed SQL database like YugabyteDB, clock synchronization across nodes isn’t just a nice-to-have, it’s critical. Coordinated timestamps underpin transaction consistency, […]

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