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Eventual Consistency Is Tricky

by emreb on 12/10/24, 10:25 AM with 7 comments

• by weinzierl on 12/13/24, 1:43 PM

  "You can’t escape eventual consistency in a distributed system."

  Can't you, though, if you sacrificed availability?

  I like to think "Eventual Consistency" is an euphemism for no consistency, mostly popularized by the MongoDB folks.

  In my opinion it is not a coincidence that the term was almost unknown before 2009, the year MongoDB was introduced.

  https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%22event...

• by shrx on 12/13/24, 1:51 PM

  Eventual consistency is not guaranteed, but temporary inconsistency is.

• by pmezard on 12/13/24, 1:26 PM

  Fluff article, no idea how it landed on front page.

• by lo_fye on 12/13/24, 2:29 PM

  Ya, but you get it working... eventually.