Lord Peter on Instagram: "CAP Theorem isn’t just tech jargon — it’s the golden rule for distributed systems! ⚖️💻 You can only pick two out of three: Consistency (everyone sees the same data), Availability (system always responds), and Partition Tolerance (keeps running despite network failures). When networks split, you must choose between serving possibly stale data to stay available (think Cassandra) or rejecting requests to keep data perfectly consistent (SQL databases). No perfect combo, ju