Eventual consistency

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Replicas may differ briefly before converging after propagation.

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<div class="scene"><div class="title">REPLICA PROPAGATION</div><div class="row replicas"><div class="tile">PRIMARY<br><b id="left">v1</b></div><div class="link"><span id="signal">→</span><small id="lagState">syncing</small></div><div class="tile">REPLICA<br><b id="right">v1</b></div></div><div id="consistency" class="muted">Both replicas agree</div></div>
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let version=1,phase=0;function tick(){if(phase===0){version++;document.getElementById('left').textContent='v'+version;document.getElementById('consistency').textContent='Replica is temporarily stale';document.getElementById('lagState').textContent='in flight'}else{document.getElementById('right').textContent='v'+version;document.getElementById('consistency').textContent='Replicas converged';document.getElementById('lagState').textContent='synced'}phase=1-phase}tick();setInterval(tick,1100)

With eventual consistency, a value written to one replica may not appear immediately on another. Given propagation and no newer writes, replicas converge.

The demo updates the left replica first, then the right after a traveling signal. Read-your-writes behavior requires an additional guarantee if users need it.

When to use

Consider it when brief divergence is acceptable and availability or regional reads matter.

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