This is well-explained and fairly concise. It's a concept that could be much more rapidly explained in an intuitive way with a few interactive diagrams, or hon

This is well-explained and fairly concise. It's a concept that could be much more rapidly explained in an intuitive way with a few interactive diagrams, or honestly a few animated gifs, though. The CAP theorem is one of those things that's a simple idea, but I didn't understand it the first few times I ran across it just because: 1) the terminology is weird ("partition", huh... well, I know how to partition a disk, but this clearly isn't that) 2) broad concepts need good examples for newcomers -- to bridge the gap from familiar to unfamiliar. If you've worked with large scale distributed processing before, great, but these ideas are especially crucial for people who are going to need such systems but don't yet understand the tradeoffs.