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What is CAP (Consistency, Availability or Partition Tolerance) Theorem And Distributed Data ?

What is CAP (Consistency, Availability or Partition Tolerance) Theorem And Distributed Data ? I got this q in an interview a few years ago and so better learn more about it. It will help you understand why some cloud DBs using strong consistency and some can only do eventual consistency! Thanks to #coachroachlabs Jim Walker for this good talk and help us understand more in the challenges to ensuring consistent distributed data, how to deal with network failures, dropped messages, RAFT, MVCC, etc...

  1. video - https://lnkd.in/gM3A-TcE
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