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Components of CAP Theorem
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Now that we have defined Consistency, Availability, and Partition Tolerance, let's dive deeper into what each of these means in practice for distributed systems, and why they matter.

Consistency in Distributed Systems

Under CAP, consistency means strong consistency across the distributed system. Whenever data is written to one node, that data is immediately (and synchronously) replicated to all nodes before the write is considered successful. This guarantees that any client, reading from any replica, will get the latest data

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