CLOCKWORK

provision of online, non-downloadable computer software for monitoring, correcting, updating, and synchronizing times relative to a reference clock across multiple machines; provision of online, non-downloadable computer software for discovery, latency and delay measurement, monitoring, telemetry, and congestion management of computer and communication networks; provision of online, non-downloadable computer software for dynamic packet-level, flow-level, and application-level prioritization, flow and control of computer and communication networks; provision of online, non-downloadable computer software for establishing accurate, multi-tiered time perimeters to enforce precise order of execution, first in first out (FIFO), of incoming data and simultaneous publishing and release of outgoing data to clusters of machines; provision of online, non-downloadable computer software for building of scalable, time-sensitive, latency-critical applications using time-as-a-service application programming interface (API); provision of online, non-downloadable computer software for creating an accurate common timeline among clusters of machines to monitor, diagnose and improve performance of distributed applications; provision of online, non-downloadable computer software for reliable, on-time, user specified, and guaranteed delivery of data on commodity computer and communication networks; provision of online, non-downloadable computer software for identifying underperforming resources on commodity computer and communication networks and boosting their performance; managed cloud services featuring the foregoing software; provision of time-as-a-service application programming interface (API) for use by others