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The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time (New Yorker)
Wednesday October 5, 2022. 05:46 PM , from LWN.net
The New Yorker has a
lengthy article on the Network Time Protocol and its creator David Mills. Coders sometimes joke, morbidly, about the “bus factor.” How many people need to get hit by a bus before a given project is endangered? It’s difficult to determine the bus factor for N.T.P., and time synchronization more broadly, especially now that companies such as Google have developed their own N.T.P.-inspired proprietary code. But it seems reasonable to say that N.T.P.’s bus factor is rather small.
https://lwn.net/Articles/910418/
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