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Partition tolerance cannot be "chosen"
Gerhard Matzen
Aug 16, 2025
The course text say:
In the CAP theorem, a distributed system can only guarantee two out of three: Consistency, Availability, Partition tolerance.
However, it seems to me that "partition tolerance" is not a choice. Partitions will happen in distributed systems. When they do, you can choose between consistency and availability.
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