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by justin_hancock 838 days ago
Disagree on latency, for certain classes of applications it really matters. Latency can be caused by a myriad of things, but if that thing is your means for cut over, you haven't failed to respond, you've failed to respond in a timely way. The telco space has strict latency requirements. If you have a failure which results in erratic behaviour on the network due to the database taking time to handle a node failure you aren't in a good place, it has a financial impact.

There are databases that can provide high consistency and availability.

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Put an SLA on the latency, and it becomes availability.
That’s a great way of putting it!