This monolithic environment for an application eliminated any concern about which clock to use -- because there was only one clock.

This is a good alternative if your objective is to eliminate synchronization.

Recommendations like these can be helpful in minimizing the need to perform model synchronization, but they will not totally eliminate this need, which leads us to an alternative approach.

They have listed all their possessions on a sheet of paper and determined to eliminate all but 100… no, thanks.

All this can be eliminated by using the database.