Comments on "You Do it Too"

1 · Kyle Kingsbury · July 7, 2015, 3:51 p.m.
In response to You Do It Too: Forfeiting Partition Tolerance in Distributed Systems, I’d like to remind folks of a few things around CAP. Partition intolerance does not mean that partitions cannot happen, it means partitions are not supported. Specifically, partition-intolerant systems must sacrifice invariants when partitions occur. Which invariants? By Gilbert & Lynch, either the system allows nonlinearizable histories, or some requests to non-failing nodes cannot complete. Related proofs te...