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Track 1 · Interview Foundations

CAP and Consistency, Honestly

When the network between your data centres breaks, you either refuse some requests or accept answers that may be wrong. Everything else on this page is about picking which one, per feature, and saying it clearly.

Guide16 min read1 interactive
On this page
  1. The night the link flapped
  2. The simple version
  3. Why "pick two" is the wrong way to say it
  4. Going deeper: PACELC and the everyday cost of being right
  5. The consistency ladder
  6. What real databases actually give you
  7. The war room: read-your-writes on a food app
  8. See it happen
  9. How to choose, feature by feature