Eventual Consistency Is Tricky

<i>&quot;You can’t escape eventual consistency in a distributed system.&quot;</i><p>Can&#x27;t you, though, if you sacrificed availability?<p>I like to think <i>&quot;Eventual Consistency&quot;</i> is an euphemism for no consistency, mostly popularized by the MongoDB folks.<p>In my opinion it is not a coincidence that the term was almost unknown before 2009, the year MongoDB was introduced.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trends.google.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;explore?date=all&amp;q=%22eventual%20consistency%22&amp;hl=en-US" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trends.google.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;explore?date=all&amp;q=%22event...</a>

Eventual consistency is not guaranteed, but temporary inconsistency is.

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

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