# Antithesis Authors - A Distributed Systems Reliability Glossary (Highlights) ![rw-book-cover|256](https://antithesis.com/images/Open-graph-image.png) ## Metadata **Review**:: [readwise.io](https://readwise.io/bookreview/61428776) **Source**:: #from/readwise #from/reader **Zettel**:: #zettel/fleeting **Status**:: #x **Authors**:: [[Antithesis Authors]] **Full Title**:: A Distributed Systems Reliability Glossary **Category**:: #articles #readwise/articles **Category Icon**:: 📰 **URL**:: [antithesis.com](https://antithesis.com/docs/resources/reliability_glossary/) **Host**:: [[antithesis.com]] **Highlighted**:: [[2026-06-18]] **Created**:: [[2026-06-20]] ## Highlights - A [consistency model](https://jepsen.io/consistency/models) is a set of allowed histories. It constrains which [operations](https://antithesis.com/docs/resources/reliability_glossary#operation) are permissible, and in which orders. We say that one model is stronger than another if the stronger model’s allowed histories are a strict subset of the weaker model’s allowed histories. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kvczdev2cfp7w61ah5fxkfjh)) ^1026372373