Answer
Data converges over time instead of instantly.
Enabled by sagas, compensating actions, and idempotent operations.
Quick Answer
In event-driven systems, eventual consistency means after an event is published, all subscribing services will update their state - but not instantly and not in the same transaction. Consumers process at their own pace. For a window of time, data across services is inconsistent. This is acceptable for most cases and is the trade-off for decoupled async communication.
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