https://blog.turboawesome.win/tags/consistency/ Recent content in Consistency on Bits, Trades & Systems Hugo en-us Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:12:00 +0000 https://blog.turboawesome.win/2025/04/distributed-consistency-models-what-your-service-actually-guarantees/ Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:12:00 +0000 https://blog.turboawesome.win/2025/04/distributed-consistency-models-what-your-service-actually-guarantees/ Linearisability, serializability, eventual consistency, causal consistency — these terms are used loosely and understood imprecisely. Knowing what your data store actually guarantees determines whether your distributed system is correct. https://blog.turboawesome.win/2018/01/distributed-transactions-are-a-lie-and-what-to-do-instead/ Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:55:00 +0000 https://blog.turboawesome.win/2018/01/distributed-transactions-are-a-lie-and-what-to-do-instead/ Two-phase commit promises ACID semantics across distributed systems. In practice it's slow, fragile, and blocks under failure. The patterns that actually work — sagas, idempotency, and compensating transactions — are more complex but more reliable.