tag: consistency
articles: 2 · beats: 1
latest: August 4, 2026
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Consistency
2 Crashtech articles on Consistency, filed under System Design, published between July 2026 and August 2026. Every piece is full-text HTML with sources, structured data and an authored FAQ.
All 2 sit in the System Design beat. System Design
The CAP Theorem Is Not a Menu
Network partitions force a hard choice: refuse writes (CP) or accept and diverge (AP). Why the two-of-three myth is wrong, and what PACELC really tells us.
Vector Clocks: Detecting Causality in Distributed Systems
Vector clocks solve distributed ordering: when wall-clock timestamps fail to detect concurrent writes, vector clocks reveal true causality and conflicts.
Questions we answer about Consistency
- Can I pick two out of three in CAP theorem?
- What is a network partition?
- What does consistency mean in CAP?
- Why do databases like DynamoDB and Cassandra choose AP?
- How does PACELC relate to CAP?
- Why can't we just use wall-clock timestamps to order events across machines?
- How does a vector clock detect concurrent events?
- What is the 'happened-before' relationship and why does it matter?
- Why do vector clocks grow in size as clusters scale?
- What systems actually use vector clocks in production?
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What does Crashtech publish about Consistency?
2 articles tagged Consistency, the most recent published August 4, 2026. All 2 sit in the System Design beat. Each carries numbered sources, an authored FAQ and full structured data.
What questions about Consistency does Crashtech answer directly?
10 questions have a dedicated answer page under this tag, including “Can I pick two out of three in CAP theorem?”. Each answer is authored prose from the article it belongs to, not a generated summary.
Can AI assistants read Crashtech's Consistency coverage?
Yes. Crashtech serves full static HTML to every crawler, allows all major AI user agents in robots.txt, and publishes an llms.txt manifest plus a full-text corpus, so assistants can retrieve and cite these articles directly.