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Reaching consensus is the definition of strong consistency. Eventual consistency would be something like: "Alice: I don't care when Bob attacks, as long as he a
by zzzcpan 8y ago
Reaching consensus is the definition of strong consistency. Eventual consistency would be something like: "Alice: I don't care when Bob attacks, as long as he attacks sometime in the future."
- nevi-me 8y agoSomeone pointed out that the 2 generals problem wasn't stated correctly on the post, the Wikipedia article invalidates my thinking entirely [0]. So, I agree re. strong consistency; as the problem was about that, and not eventual consistency. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Generals'_Problem https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Generals'_Problem