Improving Performance with High Precision Clock Synchronization in Distributed Systems

Explore clock synchronization's critical role in distributed systems performance through this 16-minute conference talk from SREcon24 Europe/Middle East/Africa. Dive into the challenges of identifying latency issues across diverse deployment environments including on-premises, cloud, and hybrid systems. Learn how network contention affects tail latencies through live demonstrations, and gain insights into various clock synchronization protocols, their advantages and limitations. Discover best practices for clock discipline and examine cutting-edge algorithms from Stanford Research. Master the use of high-precision clock synchronization at scale to monitor one-way delay metrics, enabling early detection of network congestion and proactive prevention of user response time degradation.