The CAP Theorem | System Design Concepts for Beginners

This playlist should help you prepare for your system design interviews. This video covers the CAP theorem, a well known principal in distributed systems. What and why is there a tradeoff between consistency, availability and partition tolerance in distributed systems design. Systems design interview prep guide - https://youtu.be/-m5cMzm9R-s High Availability | Eliminate Single Points of Failure - https://youtu.be/USCCqS9MbHs Data Consistency | Strong Consistency vs. Eventual Consistency - https://youtu.be/WZqGS-wczaY Why You Can’t Sacrifice Partition Tolerance - https://codahale.com/you-cant-sacrifice-partition-tolerance/ CAP Twelve Years Later: How the "Rules" Have Changed by Prof. Eric Brewer - https://www.infoq.com/articles/cap-twelve-years-later-how-the-rules-have-changed/