CAP theorem is a concept that computer scientist Eric A. Brewer coined during a distributed computing talk in 2000. That’s why it’s also known as Brewer’s theorem. It states that a distributed system cannot have more than two of the following guarantees. ConsistencyHigh availabilityPartition tolerance A proof was published two years later by two MIT professors Nancy Lynch and Seth Gilbert. The term distributed system refers to a network that stores data on many physical or virtual machines (nodes) simultaneously. All cloud applications run on distributed networks; thus, a developer needs to understand how it works. A developer with a…
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