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Eventual consistency is just caching ?

So there is someone who thinks “eventual consistency is just caching”.  Though I liked the idea of discussing this, I don’t agree with Udi’s views on this.
“Cache” is generally used to store data which is more expensive to obtain from the primary location. For example, caching mysql queries is ideal for queries which could [...]

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DealNews: Scaling for Traffic Spikes

Last year Dealnews.com unexpectedly got listed on the front page of yahoo.com for a couple of hours. No matter how optimistic one is, unexpected events like these can take down a regular website with almost no effort at all. What is your plan if you get slashdotted ? Are you ok with a short outage [...]

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