# User Expectations

> The behavior users assume a system will exhibit, such as seeing their own writes immediately.

Record: `lexicon:user-expectations`
Kind: constraint
Layer: [Execution Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/execution-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-user-expectations

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Subscriber Model](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/subscriber-model.md) and before [Asynchronous Processing](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/asynchronous-processing.md).

## Category

- [Event Messaging Async](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/event-messaging-async.md)

## In tension with

- [Eventual Consistency](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/eventual-consistency.md)
- [Eventual Consistency / User Expectations](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/eventual-consistency-user-expectations.md)

## Linked from

- [Event / Messaging / Asynchronous Architecture](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-event-messaging-asynchronous-architecture.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)