Software Engineering Radio - The Podcast for Professional Software Developers

Episode 227: Eric Brewer: The CAP Theorem, Then and Now

Software Engineering Radio - The Podcast for Professional Software Developers

Robert BlumenΒ talks with Eric Brewer, who discovered the CAP (consistency, availability, partition tolerance) theorem. The first part of the show focuses on Brewer’s original thesis presented at the 2000 ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC): What set of problems motivated the formulation of CAP? How was it understood at the time? What are […]

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