Building Financial Systems on Eventually Consistent DBs

This course aims to teach learners how to build financial systems on eventually consistent databases. The learning outcomes include understanding the challenges of operating financial systems at scale, implementing lightweight transactions in Cassandra, optimizing update consistency with optimistic locking, and balancing availability with consistency in multi-region setups. The course covers topics such as single-master databases, read replicas, slave promotion, fault tolerance in Cassandra, insert consistency, and minimizing inconsistencies. The intended audience for this course is software engineers, database administrators, and developers interested in building scalable and available financial systems on distributed databases. The teaching method involves a lecture-style presentation with a focus on real-world examples and practical solutions.