> Seduced by eventual consistency Indeed. I work at a very, very large firm suffering from problems caused by this. The system crawls and is quite expensive to

> Seduced by eventual consistency Indeed. I work at a very, very large firm suffering from problems caused by this. The system crawls and is quite expensive to run. But it's so entrenched there are no plans to replace it, only more layers put on top to mitigate it. RDBM people took a bit more time before implementing temporal features (SQL 2011).