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💻 The Future of Distributed Data: Why What You Learned in CS Class Is Outdated

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One of the foundational theorems in CS states that it is impossible for a distributed data store to provide more than two of these three feautures: consistency, availability, and partition tolerance.

However, that is no longer the case. MongoDB Principal Engineer, Asya Kamsky, and Director of Product at Cloudflare, Aly Cabral, sit down to discuss why this CAP theorem is outdated and what this means for you.

Presented by: Aly Cabral, Asya Kamsky