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Clock Skew Corruption in Timestamp-Ordered Event Logs : Retry, Timeout, and Circuit-Breaker Composition Failures

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Problem Breakdown

The defect class here is composition: individually sensible timeouts, retries, and circuit breakers interact multiplicatively when layered across a call graph. Event sourcing on top of wall-clock-ordered logs assumes producer clocks are synchronized; a host with 800ms skew writes events that sort before events they cau…

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