{
  "title": "CAP Theorem \u2014 The Tradeoff Every Engineer Must Know",
  "description": "CAP theorem decoded \u2014 no fluff, just signal. Emma and Ryan tear apart the 'pick two of three' myth (spoiler: partitions always happen, so it's really CP vs AP), walk through exactly what Cassandra does during a network split versus what Zookeeper does, explain linearizability vs eventual consistency, and extend the model with PACELC to cover latency tradeoffs in normal operation. Ends with a concrete decision framework for engineers choosing a data store.",
  "topic": "CAP theorem distributed systems",
  "date": "2026-03-06",
  "episode_num": 5,
  "duration": "00:10:02",
  "size_bytes": 5308738
}