Episode
SE Radio 227: Eric Brewer: The CAP Theorem Then and Now
Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers · May 27, 2015 · 46 min
Robert Blumen talks with Eric Brewer, who discovered the CAP (consistency, availability, partition tolerance) theorem. The first part of the show focuses on Brewer's original thesis presented at the 2000 ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC): What set of problems motivated the formulation of CAP? How was it understood at the time? What are the three types of systems that…