This article is in the context of stream processing, which is a bit of a special case, but: Whenever somebody is making a lot of hot air about consistency in t

This article is in the context of stream processing, which is a bit of a special case, but: Whenever somebody is making a lot of hot air about consistency in their chosen SQL database, they tend to conveniently sweep under the rug how common it is to use read-only replicas that are fed by asynchronous replication and caches that are updated when the programmer remembers to / that use consistency-ignoring TTLs.