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CAP & Consistency in Plain Words
11 min · 1 min read · no scary math, promise
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Bank balance = CP. Likes = AP. Tools: quorum, version vectors, CRDTs later. Beginners: say tradeoff aloud.
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1. Partition happens → choose…
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