<glowcoil>
whitequark: i don't think i really have an understanding of cap and i would like to
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<glowcoil>
"during a network partition, a distributed system must choose either Consistency or Availability"
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<inimino>
glowcoil: it means that if you need all the systems to agree (consistency) then you can't do anything (availability) if you can't reach the other systems (partition)
<whitequark>
^ basically
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<glowcoil>
whitequark: inimino: cool, makes sense
<whitequark>
some people say things like "our system is CA!"
<whitequark>
whic hshows a fundamental lack of comprehension
<glowcoil>
yeah
<glowcoil>
while partitioned you fundamentally have to choose b/t