
Designing Data-Intensive Applications – Lost Updates and Write Skew
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Orms - What's the Difference?
Most of the examples we've been talking about kind of assume like a simple setup without replicas. Once you start talking about adding replicas in and it's true distributed database, then a lost at base get much tougher. I think that the real takeaway though is know your applications requirements because going back to that financial example, right? If the strategy, if you're gonna go with a distributed database and the strategy is like a last right wins or some kind of merge strategy like, that might not be what you need, right? Like that might not meet your requirements. And so there's not a whole lot you can do. So either you write something or maybe they have something that can
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