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Eventual consistency gives you more availability, at the cost of consistency. It's fine for financial institutions to prefer this trade-off, because the any ove
by pradn 2y ago
Eventual consistency gives you more availability, at the cost of consistency. It's fine for financial institutions to prefer this trade-off, because the any over/under error is a likely a fraction of the cost of unavailability.
Also, in the real world, we can solve problems at a different level - like legal or product.
- PaulHoule 2y agoAlso the financial institutions are making enough profit that they can afford to lose a little bit in the process of reconciliation. Consider how the 3.5% fees credit cards charge mean they can afford to eat a bit of fraud and actually can tolerate more fraud than a system which had lower fees could.