Eventual Consistency / Strong Immediate Consistency
Kind: tension
Record: tension:eventual-consistency-strong-immediate-consistency
Canonical: Schema
"eventual-consistency" (execution-core layer) is traded against "Strong Immediate Consistency" (execution-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Strong Immediate Consistency" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Eventual Consistency / User Expectations and before Saga Pattern / Workflow Complexity.