Eventual Consistency
Learn about eventual consistency, its benefits for performance and resiliency, and potential risks like read-after-write inconsistency.
Eventual consistency is constant in distributed applications and especially in event-driven applications. It is a trade-off made for the performance and resiliency gains when choosing to architect a system with asynchronous communication patterns. Here’s a quick definition of what eventual consistency is:
Note: An eventually consistent system that has stopped receiving modifications to an item will eventually return the same last update across ...
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