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There’s a long history on this debate, but in practice even the GOOG and AMZN have settled on transactional CP systems for handling the important stuff like money (Spanner, Aurora). Expecting app developers to roll their own transactions and conflict resolution at the app layer proved intractable even with all their resources.

> Remediative action can then be taken

Sounds expensive and error-prone; taking a “read only” outage makes more sense in many use cases