This blog post felt unsatisfying. I’m not sure I’ve talked to anyone in the last decade about distributed systems where:
- CAP came up
- all parties immediately agreed that CA was impossible
I still think it’s a useful model for forcing people to think about their failure modes though. Systems, largely, tend to fall into either CP or AP or be horrendously expensive.
You have to choose your trade offs.
I wish the author had expounded a little further on better options. I’ll read the paper linked, but there’d be more punch with more inline content.
- CAP came up
- all parties immediately agreed that CA was impossible
I still think it’s a useful model for forcing people to think about their failure modes though. Systems, largely, tend to fall into either CP or AP or be horrendously expensive.
You have to choose your trade offs.
I wish the author had expounded a little further on better options. I’ll read the paper linked, but there’d be more punch with more inline content.