What does it take to make Google work at scale?
"NTP isn't accurate enough so we use a hardware clock assist that uses GPS and atomic clocks" - Google<p>I think it is crazy that something as simple as keeping time can have such a complicated solution at that sort of scale.<p>Every review I hear about working at Google makes me want to stay away, just like the recent conversations about working at Amazon, but crazy stuff like this always piques my interest.