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My favorite thing about this pattern is that it allows developers to build globally distributed applications while reasoning about them like a single, centralized monolith.

A lot of complicated practices that we’ve adopted to overcome the challenges of distributed systems just disappear when you have fast, strongly consistent transactional writes on a single data store. Either a thing happened or it didn’t. No need to wait around and see.

This matters even more as applications move from single failover to multi-region to edge computing with hundreds of locations of compute. How do you get consistent state out to each PoP?

You don’t, you integrate through the database.