[HN Gopher] Eventual Consistency in PBS (Probabilistically Bound...
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       Eventual Consistency in PBS (Probabilistically Bounded Staleness)
        
       Author : belter
       Score  : 36 points
       Date   : 2022-09-17 10:12 UTC (12 hours ago)
        
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       | OJFord wrote:
       | The title's correct per submission, but there's some lost context
       | here, could do with 'in PBS' or something. (I expected a
       | generalised discussion on what 'eventual' means in 'eventual
       | consistency', not figures.)
        
         | belter wrote:
         | Agree. Updated Title.
        
       | candiddevmike wrote:
       | In anything Google related (Cloud, Workspace) it's anywhere from
       | 5 minutes to 24 hours+.
       | 
       | As a user, if I have to work around your stuff being eventually
       | consistent, perhaps it shouldn't be?
        
         | chrsig wrote:
         | Phrases I've used:
         | 
         | - Occasionally Consistent
         | 
         | - Periodically Consistent
         | 
         | - Perpetually Inconsistent
        
       | lampshades wrote:
       | It depends on how much availability you want.
        
         | blowski wrote:
         | Also, how much you want to spend on your infrastructure, and
         | how certain you want to be about your data integrity.
        
       | jasonhansel wrote:
       | Something confusing about that chart: the range of the Y-axis
       | doesn't start at zero, and it changes when you adjust the
       | parameters, making it hard to see how changes to the parameters
       | affect the probabilities in question.
        
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