[okigan]

It took 20 years to acknowledge that pushing eventual consistency to application layer is not worth it for most applications.

Seems the same is playing out out in Postgres with this extension, maybe will take it another 20 years

[rubiquity]

The idea of active-active is too seductive compared to how hard learning distributed systems is.

[okigan]

It is so seductive that people don’t read the footnotes that explain that active-active does not do what they think it does.

[tinkertamper]

I'm curious about what you mean here. It sounds like you're saying that applications shouldn't concern themselves with consistency. Can you elaborate?