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Eventual consistency is a consistency model in which different replicas or services may temporarily contain different versions of the same data, but if updates stop, all replicas eventually converge to the same state .

Data management becomes one of the hardest parts of microservices architecture. Inside a monolith, multiple modules can share a database, execute joins, and update related records inside a single transaction. Once business capabilities become independent services, those assumptions no longer hold.