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In my opinion this dead horse is beat. Anyone working on distributed systems knows that CAP is not useful in isolation. See Eric Brewer's followup article from
by _dark_matter_ 3y ago
In my opinion this dead horse is beat. Anyone working on distributed systems knows that CAP is not useful in isolation. See Eric Brewer's followup article from 2012: https://www.infoq.com/articles/cap-twelve-years-later-how-the-rules-have-changed/ https://www.infoq.com/articles/cap-twelve-years-later-how-th...
- _visgean 3y agoI had an interview question about it, I tried to cite Kleppmann from the distributed systems book and the interview manager got quite offended.
- adhamsalama 3y agoSame, but I actually forgot why he didn't like it, so I didn't.
- 12345hn6789 3y agocare to elaborate? Not picking apart anything you said but am curious. I am slowly making my way through DDIA. Nothing he says is particularly egregious (so far).
- _visgean 3y agothe guy interviewing me just wanted a definition. I guess I should have started with that and then point out why its a bad concept.
- swyx 3y agosounds like you dodged a bullet.