Eventual Consistency Today: Limitations, Extensions, and Beyond
Interesting overview by Peter Bailis and Ali Ghodsi on what the current practices are in system architecture when dealing with eventual consistency of distributed data sources.
They discuss research that shows that eventual consistency is in practice often strongly consistent, and thus "good enough" for most practices.
The paper concludes with a short overview of research into pushing the limits of what is achievable with high availability.
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