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by logophobia 2895 days ago
I think I misunderstood that yes.

https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-....

TLDR: It's technically CP, but google claims partitions are so rare people can assume it's CA as well (99.999% available).

I assumed TrueTime bypassed the CAP theorem, but apparently that's marketing bs. It's to ensure something called external consistency, which is important if you want to take consistent snapshots over a distributed system.

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Semi-related soapbox: Can we all please stop saying "CAP theorem" and instead say "CAP rule"? The formulation of this supposed theorem is so vague that it can neither be proven nor disproven.
It was proven in 2002, has a formal definition, so I'm going with calling it a theorem. Maybe this'll help: https://mwhittaker.github.io/blog/an_illustrated_proof_of_th... ?