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Latency and consistency tradeoffs for data replication

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Latency and consistency tradeoffs for data replication

Alex Xu
Mar 11, 2022
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Latency and consistency tradeoffs for data replication

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Understanding the tradeoffs is very important not only in system design interviews but also designing real-world systems. When we talk about data replication, there is a fundamental tradeoff between latency and consistency. It is illustrated by the diagram below.


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