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yes, but no. because in reality what we really want is not true pure AP or CP (or CA, which you can't have anyway)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUd_9FENShA

(CAP is a very important result about a very strong assumption of consistency: linearizable events, but for that you can't lose any messages [if I remember it correctly], otherwise the system will become inconsistent)



Thanks for the video, very interesting.




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