Eventually Consistent - Revisited - All Things Distributed
When designing these large-scale systems at Amazon, we use a set of guiding principles and abstractions related to large-scale data replication and focus on the trade-offs between high availability and data consistency. In this article I present some of the relevant background that has informed our approach to delivering reliable distributed systems that need to operate on a global scale.
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