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Eventually consistent (managing data at scale)

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

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Idempotency, Idcyyotyo

In the ideal world, you want something that's like you get every message exactly once. But we all know that's not realistic. So then odempidem potency is the idea that, assuming you get the same message twice, your system should be in the same state as if you'd just got it once. And a simple example is like adition, likea plus one message is not idempotent. If, however, you get two of those plus one messages and you've got some value, it's going to end being plus two. That is very, very common within distibuter systems,. rite so you cannot have to factor aniepotency and things like

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