Jan
21
CAP Theorem
We’ve been doing architecture for geographically disperse, highly available systems at work for a few years now. We have mostly been coming up with “things that work” without spending a lot of time on research. I ran across Werner Vogel’s post on this sort of thing a month or two ago and thought it would be worth mentioning. It really crystalized for me some ideas that intuitively made sense to me and it is something I can point other people to. We were talking about the architecture of a new system today at lunch and I realized that I hadn’t mentioned it to anyone when I originally read it.
Werner’s entire post is well worth reading, but a more succinct explanation of just the CAP Theorem can also be found here.
