Here are the slides from Netflix architect Christos Kalantzis 's talk, "Eventual consistency != hopeful consistency:" http://www.slideshare.net/planetcassandra/

Here are the slides from Netflix architect Christos Kalantzis 's talk, "Eventual consistency != hopeful consistency:" http://www.slideshare.net/planetcassandra/c-summit-2013-eventual-consistency-hopeful-consistency-by-christos-kalantzis http://www.slideshare.net/planetcassandra/c-summit-2013-even... Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwIA8tsDXXE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwIA8tsDXXE But, it's important to note that Cassandra does recognize that sometimes you do need linearizable consistency. Cassandra provides lightweight transactions for this scenario: http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/lightweight-transactions-in-cassandra-2-0 http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/lightweight-transactions-in...