My first thought was The Structure of Scientific Revolution. CAP was a very useful theory on top of which years of research were done until the paradigm was bro

My first thought was The Structure of Scientific Revolution. CAP was a very useful theory on top of which years of research were done until the paradigm was broken and replaced. That's how progress works. It doesn't mean CAP was a scam it was our very good first draft at formalizing distributed database theory. And the fact that we still talk about it is proof of that.