A note about eventual consistency - Part 2

Revisiting a massively misunderstood topic

Uwe Friedrichsen

17 minute read

Ducks in the surf

In the previous post we discussed what eventual consistency actually means and why we sometimes need to favor eventual consistency over strong consistency. We also saw that most of the time we will not perceive any differences between eventual and strong consistency if set up properly. The differences only become apparent if the system encounters adverse conditions like, e.g., a network partition, loss of a node, or alike.

Thoughts on AI and software development - Part 4

Side effect and unresolved questions

Uwe Friedrichsen

20 minute read

Animals made from straw and bast exhibited on a table

In the previous post, we looked at the likely short- and mid-term consequences if Steve’s projection should become reality. We saw a bit disturbed that most likely the only winners of that projection would be the providers of agentic AI solutions and their investors while everyone else would be on the loser side of the game.