A classic! If you had to take away one thing from this article, it would be that the CAP theorem (while useful) doesn't take into consideration latency, which m

A classic! If you had to take away one thing from this article, it would be that the CAP theorem (while useful) doesn't take into consideration latency, which might be more important than even more important than partition tolerance. Yes, partition tolerance is inevitable, but you have to deal with latency every single time!