Glad to see this point at the end: "16. Have I 'got around' or 'beaten' the CAP theorem? No. You might have designed a system that is not heavily affected by

Glad to see this point at the end: "16. Have I 'got around' or 'beaten' the CAP theorem? No. You might have designed a system that is not heavily affected by it. That's good." Our thoughts on CAP and how we've dealt with it while building a distributed truly ACID database might also be interesting to some: http://foundationdb.com/white-papers/the-cap-theorem/ http://foundationdb.com/white-papers/the-cap-theorem/