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Eventual Consistency

Explore the concept of eventual consistency in distributed event-driven applications. Understand the trade-offs between performance and consistency, how asynchronous communication affects data propagation, and strategies to handle read-after-write inconsistencies.

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 the system.

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