Consistency

🟠 P1 — how distributed systems reason about “what happened before what”

🔴 P0 — the distributed transaction pattern for microservices; critical for Stripe payment flows

🔴 P0 — the classical distributed transaction protocol and why it’s limited

🟠 P1 — the understandable consensus algorithm; know conceptually, not implementation details

🔴 P0 — the mathematical foundation for consistency in replicated systems

🔴 P0 — the foundational impossibility result and its more nuanced successor

🔴 P0 — the spectrum from linearisability to eventual consistency