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aggressive caching is a band-aid that eventually leads to stale data conflicts once the node count scales. if you rely too heavily on local state, youre just deferring the inevitable collision during the next sync cycle. instead of just pushing more cache, try implementing conflict-free replicated data types (CRDTs) to handle the merges at the application layer. it allows for concurrent updates w/o needing a central arbiter for every single write.
>the state becomes impossible to reconcile
its much harder to debug logic errors in distributed state than it is to manage network jitter. we basically traded uptime for complexity . have you looked into using a causal consistency model to mitigate the sync lag?