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For workloads where eventually consistent is okay.

It's harder to get mainframe like uptimes for OLTP simultaneously with mainframe like IOPS.




Banking uses eventual consistency all over the place. Unsurprising given they started with letters going by ship and courier.


Exactly, I think that folks forget that ATMs operate like that, if the network is down ATM doesn't stop working. That's why folk's account can go below $0. Banks have been operating distributed systems with eventual consistency for a very long time.




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