This is the audio version of a blog post, published on www.mydistributed.systems, by Mohammad Roohitavaf.

Eventual consistency is one of the defining characteristics of many modern data stores. By getting rid of strong consistency and embracing eventual consistency, service providers can keep their services available even when replicas cannot talk to each other. Eventual consistency also removes the performance bottlenecks of strong consistency and lets us scale the system much more easily. Due to its significant benefits, eventual consistency has been widely adopted in the industry. Every day, when you are using social networks, shopping online, or even when you are doing online banking, most likely you are using services that rely on eventual consistency.

Blog post: https://www.mydistributed.systems/2022/02/eventual-consistency-part-1.html