Easy Eventual Consistency with Actor Models + Amazon Web Services

This talk explains how CRDTs, event sourcing, and immutability can produce strong eventual consistency across distributed nodes without direct coordination. It demonstrates the approach with C# and a clickstream pipeline, including recovery from data failures.

Syllabus

Introduction
Philips background
Weak Eventual Consistency
XP Analogy
Simple Principle
Conflictfree replicated data types
Cap theorem
CRDTs
Querying
Merge
I dont understand
Union is all you need
Commutative
Why Immutability
How to Store
What do you do
ClickStream Pipeline
ClickStream Events
Multiple Actor Systems
Actor Systems App
Elastic Search
Continuous Deployment
Distributed Swarm
Catastrophic Failure
Data Recovery
Last Batch Request
Hash Sets
SQS
Questions