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Eventual Consistency

Replicas or services that stop receiving updates converge to the same state, but a reader may observe stale data in the interim. Designing for it means making the convergence window and its business impact explicit, not pretending reads are always current.

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Eventual Consistency in Distributed Systems

In a distributed system — one whose state is split across two or more independent subsystems or nodes — consistency means that data is coherent across all parts of the system, and this can be achieve…