Chapter 48
CAP
CAP is sometimes presented as Consistency, Availability, Partition tolerance: pick 2 out of 3. Unfortunately, putting it this way is misleading, because network partitions are a kind of fault that will inevitably happen in distributed systems, so they aren't something about which you have a choice.
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