CAP Theorem, PACELC, and Microservices

Date Published: 17 November 2020 CAP Theorem wikipedia is a classic "given 3 choices, choose 2" topic. The three choices are Consistency, Availability, and Partition Tolerance. You can't have all three. Given distributed data or systems, the choice mostly comes up with there is a network partition, meaning two nodes of the system can't communicate immediately with one another.