Tag: CAP

• 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. In the decade since its introduction, designers and…

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  Markus Perdrizat

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  May 2, 2013

  Finance, Technology
• 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. Specifically, I want to expand on the distinction between properties…

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  Markus Perdrizat

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  Apr 5, 2013

  Technology