Eric Brewer on Why Banks Are BASE Not ACID – Availability Is Revenue (2013)
This is such an important article for people to read, especially people so bent on strong consistency. I&#x27;ve done talks on this for our database (eventually consistent, <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gun.js.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gun.js.org&#x2F;</a> ), and people always ask about banking. Yes banks should use strongly consistent approaches, but they don&#x27;t - user experience trumps perfect academics. And having Eric Brewer say this is fantastic evidence.