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Consistency, CAP and What Your Workflow Actually Needs
CAP says that when the network partitions you must choose availability or consistency, and it is quoted far more often than it is applied. The useful version for a deployment is narrower: decide per operation how stale a read may be, because most workflows tolerate seconds of staleness and a few tolerate none.
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