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“64-node clusters ought to be enough for anybody.” Bill Gates, quoted from memory. This post is part of the CAP theorem series . You may want to start by my post on ACID vs. CAP if yo...

http://blog.thislongrun.com/2015/07/Forfeit-Partition-Tolerance-Distributed-System-CAP-Theorem.html

“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my socketReadTimeout.” - Oscar Wilde, quoted from memory. This post is part of the CAP theorem series . You may want to start by ...

http://blog.thislongrun.com/2015/06/real-time-CAP-theorem.html

“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a timeout, to treat everything as if it were a partition.” - Abraham Maslow, quoted from memory This post is part of the CAP the...

http://blog.thislongrun.com/2015/05/CAP-theorem-partition-timeout-zookeeper.html

“A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his data may drive him to despair.” (Machiavelli, quoted from memory) While traditional databases are ACID , with t...

http://blog.thislongrun.com/2015/05/definition-eventual-consistency-durability.html

“Those are my consistency models, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.” - Groucho Marx, quoted from memory The CAP theorem series is coming to an end. I have a few posts pl...

http://blog.thislongrun.com/2015/05/the-consistency-series.html

“Those who would give up Consistency, to purchase a little temporary Availability, deserve neither Consistency nor Availability.” (B. Franklin, quoted from memory) This post is part of th...

http://blog.thislongrun.com/2015/04/cap-availability-high-availability-and_16.html

This post is part of the CAP theorem series . You may want to start by my post on ACID vs. CAP if you have a database background but have never really been exposed to the CAP theorem. The po...

http://blog.thislongrun.com/2015/04/the-unclear-cp-vs-ca-case-in-cap.html

CAP and ACID share a common vocabulary: Atomic, Consistent, and so on. But there is a catch: the words are the same but they mean totally different things. CAP comes from the distributed systems...

http://blog.thislongrun.com/2015/03/the-confusing-cap-and-acid-wording.html

In the previous post, we looked at this common saying: “nodes fail, network packets get lost, partitions happen so you need to use CAP to understand your trade-offs.” We saw that node failur...

http://blog.thislongrun.com/2015/03/dont-use-cap-theorem-for-packet-losses.html

"Dead nodes don't bite." - Robert Louis Stevenson (quoted from memory) CAP is often described as a theorem you cannot avoid using. A common saying is “nodes fail, network packets get lost, ...

http://blog.thislongrun.com/2015/03/dead-nodes-dont-bite.html

Eventual Consistency (EC) is a well known concept. The CAP theorem, which defines Consistency, Availability and Partition tolerance is also well known. It describes some distributed systems such...

http://blog.thislongrun.com/2015/03/comparing-eventually-consistent-and-cp-CAP.html

Let me introduce a new series of posts on the CAP theorem. CAP is a well known theorem conjectured and proven by recognized researchers in distributed systems, namely Eric Brewer, Seth Gilbert a...

http://blog.thislongrun.com/2015/03/the-cap-theorem-series.html