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Yes, this is true of eventually consistent systems. The question is a) what does "eventually" mean (replication takes seconds, minutes, or hours?), b) what time delta do you expect for most transaction requests, and c) what is the risk of being temporarily wrong?

Seems to me that a bank could answer these questions as well as any other business, and build a system that works within the answers.




Banks are already eventually consistent. Balances are reconciled COB.




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