Complex sentence: The appropriate mechanism for choosing an appropriate final state depends on the application and the system but may come in the form of "last writer wins" reconciliation or user-specified conflict handling timestamps and vector clocks are often used to detect concurrency between updates.
Split into simpler sentences: The appropriate mechanism for choosing an appropriate final state depends on the application and the system but may come in the form of "last writer wins" reconciliation or user-specified conflict handling. Timestamps and vector clocks are often used to detect concurrency between updates.