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His continued use of "CP" confused me for a while, so TIL about CAP Theorem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem
by keeran 13y ago
His continued use of "CP" confused me for a while, so TIL about CAP Theorem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem
- bretthoerner 13y agoAnd better: http://henryr.github.io/cap-faq/ http://henryr.github.io/cap-faq/
- krenoten 13y agoIf you have the time, this video by Basho's CTO will give you a much better understanding of the tradeoffs that are involved in distributed system design: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Concurrency-Scale-Distributed http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Concurrency-Scale-Distrib... A great alternative to thinking about things in terms of CAP that Justin brings up is harvest-yield, where yield is the probability of completing a request and harvest is the fraction of your data that the response actually represents. Here's the paper: http://lab.mscs.mu.edu/Dist2012/lectures/HarvestYield.pdf http://lab.mscs.mu.edu/Dist2012/lectures/HarvestYield.pdf