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