Tag: CAP
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CAP Twelve Years Later: How the “Rules” Have Changed
Eric Brewer about CAP Twelve Years Later: How the “Rules” Have Changed:
The CAP theorem asserts that any networked shared-data system can have only two of three desirable properties. However, by explicitly handling partitions, designers can optimize consistency and availability, thereby achieving some trade-off of all three.… Continued
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The Consistency Alphabet Soup
The Consistency Alphabet Soup:
It seems that newcomers to distributed systems are often confused by the various definitions of the C-word. I want to go over them to draw a distinction that is often overlooked, without getting into the tired old arguments around eventual consistency.… Continued