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10.16Eventual consistency
This is one of the biggest async concepts.
At 10:00:00:
source customer updated
At 10:00:01:
event published
At 10:00:03:
Salesforce updated
For two seconds:
source != Salesforce
That's eventual consistency.
The systems converge eventually rather than staying atomically synchronized at every instant.