What is Eventual Consistency and How Do You Deal with It?

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Eventually consistency is a fancy name of doing something and only expecting the changed state after a while. When querying for a list of message templates from WhatsApp, we’ll cache the response for use later. It’s because message templates are not something that changes so frequently. Just cache it to reduce unnecessary API calls. After creating a template, we won’t see it for a while if we call the listing API. That's because of, you guessed it, eventually consistency.