System Design Jul 25, 2026 9 min read
CAP Theorem Explained
Learn what consistency, availability, and partition tolerance mean during failures, why pick-two is misleading, and how PACELC improves the model.
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System Design Jul 25, 2026 9 min read
Learn what consistency, availability, and partition tolerance mean during failures, why pick-two is misleading, and how PACELC improves the model.
System Design Jun 29, 2026 5 min read
Learn what eventual consistency means in distributed systems, why stale reads happen, and how backend teams design around them.