Scalability Best Practices: Lessons from eBay

The CAP theorem, postulated almost 10 years ago by Inktomi's Eric Brewer, states that of three highly desirable properties of distributed systems - consistency (C), availability (A), and partition-tolerance (P) - you can only choose two at any one time.

 

 

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posted @ 2010-01-26 17:07  octoberfirst  阅读(186)  评论(0)  编辑  收藏  举报