intermediateDistributed Systems Trade-offs
What does the CAP theorem actually state? Why can a distributed system only guarantee two of Consistency, Availability, and Partition tolerance, not all three?
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What does the CAP theorem actually state? Why can a distributed system only guarantee two of Consistency, Availability, and Partition tolerance, not all three?