Consistent Backends and UX: How Do New Algorithms Help?
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In previous articles, we explained what consistency is, the difference between “strong” and “eventual” consistency, and why this distinction …
Consistent Backends and UX: What are the Barriers to Adoption?
There are very few scenarios in which an eventually consistent database is preferable over a strongly consistent database. Further, in a multi-region application scenario where scaling is necessary, choosing either an undistributed database or an eventually consistent database is even more questionable. So what motivates engineers to ignore strongly consistent distributed databases? We have seen many reasons, but wrong assumptions drive most of them.
Consistent Backends and UX: What Can Go Wrong?
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In the previous article, we explained what strong (vs. eventual) consistency is. This article is the second part of …
Consistent Backends and UX: Why Should You Care?
More than ever, new products aim to make an impact on a global scale, and user experience is rapidly becoming the determining factor for whether they are successful or not.