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Re:Ask HN: What are the best acronyms that programmers shoul... by boyter on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @09:16PM (#14313234)
CAP

Consistency Availability Performance. At scale, pick any two.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best acronyms that programmers shoul... by borplk on Thursday May 11, 2017 @06:30AM (#14315044)
"P" is for partition tolerance.
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Re:Ask HN: What are the best acronyms that programmers shoul... by biksnep on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @09:42PM (#14313326)
Partition tolerance?
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Re:Ask HN: What are the best acronyms that programmers shoul... by joeclark77 on Thursday May 11, 2017 @09:07AM (#14315681)
Yeah, it just means that you can distribute the system across a cluster. Since we only talk about the CAP theorem in the context of distributed systems, you have to assume "P" has already been chosen. So the theorem is really about a trade-off between "C" and "A".
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