Your Ideal Performance: Consistency Tradeoff

Eventual consistency is a strategy used by distributed systems to improve query and update latencies and provide stronger availability than possible otherwise. It allows users to specify parameters such as replication factor (N), number of nodes for write success (W), and number of nodes for read operation (R). By varying these parameters, one can obtain different properties of availability, consistency, reliability, and speed. The interactive demo provided by the EECS department at UC Berkeley helps users determine their system's optimal configuration based on latency distributions and other factors.