Eventual consistency and microservices

Since at least the early 1990's our industry and academia have dabbled with eventual consistency. I've written and spoken a bit about eventual consistency around transactions and replication as it applies to scaling systems and also SOA over the years. As Eric wrote many years ago, some of it even made its way into standards. Recently the industry has been looking at how eventual consistency may be required within microservices. For instance, what about Eclipse MicroProfile and transactions (yes, a favourite of mine)? It's possible some of this may make its way into Eclipse EE4J. And now Matt Klein from Lyft has written a nice piece about eventual consistency and networks, which is also worth a read.

Just remember: right tool for right job; just as ACID transactions aren't right for evry use case, strong consistency isn't right for every use case, and hence neither is eventual consistency right for every use case. Think, understand, consider and apply.