The Story of the CAP Theorem Part 1

Your podcast hosts have a suspicion about the CAP Theorem: if you're a working programmer and you've heard of any single result in the field of distributed systems, we think you'll have heard of the CAP Theorem. But did you ever wonder where it comes from? In this episode, we'll tell the story of the CAP Theorem. THERE WILL BE BLUEBERRIES!!!

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Links

• 2000 PODC website 
• Brewer’s “Towards Robust Distributed Systems” (slideshow of the talk!)
• FLP Paper: Impossibility of Distributed Consensus with One Faulty Process (1985)
• Lynch:  “A Hundred Impossibility Proofs for Distributed Computing” (1989)
• Brewer Interview in 2015: https://medium.com/s-c-a-l-e/google-systems-guru-explains-why-containers-are-the-future-of-computing-87922af2cf95
• Brewer interview with Software Engineering Daily 2023: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2023/05/12/cap-theorem-23-years-later/
• A Theoretical View of Distributed Systems: Nancy Lynch (2021 Talk)

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