I’m not arguing for mainframes here. I’m just saying that when you opt to improve your resiliency and availability by distributing your system, rather than by,

I’m not arguing for mainframes here. I’m just saying that when you opt to improve your resiliency and availability by distributing your system, rather than by, say, adding more redundant power supplies and burying your computer in a deeper bunker, you are making your system partitionable, and that means you have to give up either consistency or availability. Which is odd, when you think about it, since you allegedly made this choice in order to get better availability.