# Unordered Parallel Consumption

> Consuming an ordered event stream in parallel without preserving order, so state is updated out of sequence.

Record: `lex:unordered-parallel-consumption`
Kind: anti-pattern
Layer: [Causality Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/causality-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lex-unordered-parallel-consumption

## category

- [Causality / Ordering / Distributed Time](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex-category/causality-ordering-distributed-time.md)

## referenced-by

- [Event Ordering](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/event-ordering.md)