I kinda see what the author is getting at, but I don't buy the argument. However, in the example with the network partition, it relies on proper monitoring to

I kinda see what the author is getting at, but I don't buy the argument. However, in the example with the network partition, it relies on proper monitoring to work out if the DB its attached to is currently in partition. managing reads is a piece of piss, mostly. Its when you need propagate write to the rest of the DB system, thats where stuff gets hairy. Now, most places can run from a single DB, especially as disks are fucking fast now. so CAP is never really that much of a problem. However when you go multi-region, thats when it gets interesting.