alt Hacker News> They are actually never consistent
I don't see it this way. Let's take a simple example - banks. Your employer sends you the salary from another bank. The transfer is (I'd say) eventually consistent - at some point, you WILL get the money. So how it can be "never consistent"?
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YetAnotherNick • today at 7:52 PM
If the bank transaction is eventually consistent, it means that the state can flip and the person receiving will "never" be sure. A state that the transaction will be finished later is a consistent state.
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Because I will have spent it before it becomes available :)
For the record (IMO) banks are an EXCELLENT example of eventually consistent systems.
They're also EXCELLENT for demonstrating Event Sourcing (Bank statements, which are really projections of the banks internal Event log, but enough people have encountered them in such a way that that most people understand them)