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Submitted http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1191075 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1191075 because a lot of people in this thread could use an explanatio
by jbellis 17y ago
Submitted http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1191075 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1191075 because a lot of people in this thread could use an explanation of what CAP actually means. :)
- strlen 17y agoI think P should be an S ("split"), a lot of people seem to confuse partition in the context of "partitioning a database" with a network partition ("split-brain" scenario). Perhaps a better example to use should be a distributed chat room.
- lucifer 17y agoHow is "split" more informative? Wouldn't it be more reasonable to expect the interested reader/developer to do the minimum required effort* to tap the substantial body of work on this topic? This mini rant isn't directed at you, but must we dumb down everything? You would expect any one opining on or making a decision regarding distributed systems and CAP to at least understand the basic ideas. http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=network+partition&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=...