CAP theorem!

March 29, 2020

Introduction In the last post I discussed why we need distributed systems and how to setup gearman on a cluster. In this post I’ll try to convince you that CAP theorem is indeed a “theorem”. Anyways, We like distributed systems!! (because they provide us the features that we really want) but…, Are they trivial to implement?. Words of Wisdom!! My colleague once said More code => More Complexity => More Monster Bugs => More Pain Fundamental Operations Let’s start with that, Initially we used to have a beautiful piece of machine having 8 cores, 16 gigs of memory, few hundread gigs of storage. ...