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Replication lag

A burst of writes left the replicas seconds behind. Reads after a write came back stale.

What happens#

A burst of writes left the replicas seconds behind. Reads after a write came back stale.

How to prevent it#

Read-your-writes routing sends those reads to the primary.

The postmortem opens the first of these that you do not own yet:

  1. Read-your-writes routing

Engineering terms#