<strong>Jane Street</strong> <h2>_Tech Blog</h2> Thu, 2014/06/26 - 7:21am - Yaron Minsky | OCaml We've just kicked off an internal distributed-systems seminar. Our inaugral paper was Lamport's classic "Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System" . I remembered the paper fondly, but hadn't looked back it it for more than a decade. Going back and reading it carefully was a fun experience, and I realized that I hadn't really understood the paper properly at the time. Maybe that's not surprising --- Lamport himself likes to complain that no one really understands the main contribution of the paper, which from his perspective is the introduction of state machine replication. (As a side note, If you come to think that everyone has missed what you believe to be the main point of your paper, you should consider th...