[Info-vax] [OT] Data/system integrity, was: Re: HBVS, was: Re: WASD 11.0 announced.

[Kerry Main]

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> Re: WASD 11.0 announced.
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> On Sunday, May 22, 2016 at 4:30:06 AM UTC+12, Kerry Main wrote:
> > According to the generally accepted distributed systems mantra, you
> > have to worry about consistency, availability and persistence - pick 2.
> 
> The “P” in CAP stands for “partitioning”.
> 

Correct - something else was on my mind at the time of writing.

> > As I was listening to the talk, I was thinking "Huh, why not all 3?"
> 
> Because it doesn’t work. That’s why it’s called a “theorem”.
> 

Agree - the CAP "theorem" is outdated and imho, really applies to the 
shared nothing model of computing where unique data sits on different 
individual nodes and async replication is used as the availability solution.
https://www.infoq.com/articles/cap-twelve-years-later-how-the-rules-have-changed


Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com