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When distributed data consistency breaks user experience expectations

Our multi-region database replication has a two-second lag and customers in different regions see different data and complain that the app feels broken but the database vendor says two seconds is within SLA.

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What we've seen

Technical SLA compliance can diverge sharply from human perception of system reliability.

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