Never, ever, never, ever use timestamps for conflict resolution.
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I've had this argument so many times and decided timestamp at the time the change was actually made is good enough. Let's talk!
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For sure if you can't share a clock within an acceptable delta of accuracy then yes it's a non starter
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I can see how “syncing a user’s data across their two machines” is fundamentally different from a 10M user DB, yeah.
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maybe, maybe not. Do your conflict resolution rules involve deleting user data? Does time affect that?
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Yeah, I vastly prefer “parent hash” regimes as in operational transforms.
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