Hey all, This week's reading group is on the CAP Theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem. Christy has graciously agreed to lead this discussion, to help those of us working towards the S&P deadline. *Papers* 1. "Brewer's Conjecture": Harvest,Yield,and Scalable Tolerant Systems https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5015/8bc1a8a67295ab7bce0550886a9859000dc2.p... Fox and Brewer, HotOS 1999. 2. Brewer's conjecture and the feasibility of consistent, available, partition-tolerant web services, https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~adrian/731-sp04/readings/GL-cap.pdf Gilbert and Lynch, ACM SIGACT News, 2002 *Logistics* The usual. Friday, 1 December, 3:30-5:00 PM, KW2, 2225. Regards, Jamie -- Jamie Davis PhD student, Computer Science, 2015-? Virginia Tech http://people.cs.vt.edu/~davisjam/