Leveraging session consistency

The design of a cloud-native frontend application must account for the fact that the system should be eventually consistent. For example, in a traditional frontend application, it is not uncommon to save data and then immediately execute a query to retrieve that same data. However, in an eventually consistent system, it is very likely that the query would not find the data on the first try. Instead, cloud-native frontends leverage the fact that single page applications can—at minimum—cache data locally for the duration of the user's session. This approach is referred to as session consistency. The following recipe demonstrates how to use the popular Apollo Client (https://www.apollographql.com/client) with ReactJS to improve perceived performance and reduce load on the system by implementing session consistency.

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