Building on Quicksand — HN submission

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Building on Quicksand

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Building on Quicksand — mentioned by pbailis

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:04:05 GMT

Eventual consistency isn't about "losing writes". It's about how long it will take for all of your replicas to agree on/observe the last written versions and, in the meantime, you'll read potentially stale data. Certain data structures inherently tolerate staleness or message reordering: look at your Twitter feed, any kind of log, or other "commutative data structures". If you can't handle staleness, you should probably use stronger consistency. However, if you can find out about staleness after the fact (an asynchronous callback, for instance), you can run some sort of compensatory routine…

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Building on Quicksand — HN submission

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