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Blog ›Articles by: Ed Thurman

Ed Thurman

Sr. Manager, Engineering

by Ed Thurman / Feb 10, 2025

Navigating Consistency in Distributed Systems: Choosing the Right Trade-Offs

The world’s leading companies trust Hazelcast to modernize applications and take instant action on all data to create new revenue streams, mitigate risk, and operate more efficiently. Businesses use Hazelcast’s unified real-time data platform to process all data, enrich it with historical context and take instant action with standard or ML/AI-driven automation — before it is stored in database or data lake.

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