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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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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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Peeking into YugabyteDB’s Hybrid Logical Clock (HLC)

Jim KnicelySeptember 29, 2025

Distributed databases need a way to order events across nodes that don’t share a perfectly synchronized clock. YugabyteDB solves this problem with […]

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