Marc's Blog My name is Marc Brooker. I've been writing code, reading code, and living vicariously through computers for as long as I can remember. I like to build things that work. I also dabble in brewing, cooking and skiing. I'm currently an engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Seattle, working on computing without computers and block storage without disks . All opinions are my own. Amazon Elastic Block Store is Hiring! @MarcJBrooker on Twitter CAP is confusing. PACELC is better, but still not ideal. In some sense, the CAP theorem has been too successful. With its snappy name and apparently easy-to-understand behavior, CAP has become the go-to way of talking about tradeoffs in distributed systems. Despite its apparent simplicity, confusion, misunderstandings, misrepresentations and debates about CAP are widespread. Criticism of CAP is also widespread, both in its us...