I think the answer is yes, and I calculate the worst-case drift.
At MongoDB, we experimented to see if we could predict each DBaaS customer's demand fluctuations, and auto-scale them using this foreknowledge.
A multicore replication algorithm.
I attended my first High Performance Transaction Systems conference, here are my messy inaccurate notes.
A PhD thesis and two papers about reactive and predictive autoscaling.
A super-low latency protocol with causal consistency and total order, for cutting-edge data centers.
A clever algorithm for reducing conflicts in a distributed task scheduler.
Which consensus algorithm will win?