Read-Your-Writes Violation

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Enforcement Core

Record: architecture:read-your-writes-violation

Severity: discouraged

Scope: contract_compatibility

Formed by: Let users or processes perform a write and then read from a stale replica, cache, projection, or eventually consistent view without explicit consistency contract.

Canonical: Ontology

A defect in which a writer reads back a stale copy of what it has just written.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Dual Write and before Security Theater.

Refactored by

• Read From Primary After Write
• Cache Invalidation on Write
• Consistency Contract

Severity

• discouraged

Category

• Anti-patterns

Force

• Contract compatibility

Negated by

• Causal Consistency

Linked from

• Anti-patterns
• Causality / Ordering / Distributed Time
• Causality / Ordering / Distributed Time
• Scalability / Performance / Optimization
• Transactions / State / Concurrency
• Severity levels
• The forces