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I’m not sure I follow. How would this be eventually consistent at all? It looks like the two peers in your example simply have divergent state and will never converge.


Yes, there is a process to reconcile the states.

But the point is that there is a point in time where reading from different replicas gives different results.

In the CAP theorem consistency is comprised.




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