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Brewers CAP Theorem on distributed systems

Large distributed systems run into a problem which smaller systems don’t usually have to worry about. “Brewers CAP Theorem” [ Ref 1] [ Ref 2] [ Ref 3]  defines this problem in a very simple way. It states, that though its desirable to have Consistency, High-Availability and Partition-tolerance in every system, unfortunately no system can [...]

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