Total-Order Broadcast / Latency
Kind: tension
Record: tension:latency-total-order-broadcast
Canonical: Schema
"total-order-broadcast" (causality-core layer) is traded against "Latency" (performance-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Latency" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after CRDTs / Last-Write-Wins Overwrite and before CAP Theorem / Latency.