My beef with CAP is not that it's so broad, but that it's so narrow. It actually only proves a fairly small class of systems as impossible, and it's kinda obvious. Literature going back to the 1970s suggests that the trade-off was well known back then -- just not under such a catchy name.
Impossibility results are great, but misinterpreting them and using them to argue stuff to which they simply don't apply is not so great.
Comments
My beef with CAP is not that it's so broad, but that it's so narrow. It actually only proves a fairly small class of systems as impossible, and it's kinda obvious. Literature going back to the 1970s suggests that the trade-off was well known back then -- just not under such a catchy name.
Impossibility results are great, but misinterpreting them and using them to argue stuff to which they simply don't apply is not so great.