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This is for a distributed database product that claims to bypass the CAP theorem or have I misunderstood?

> Back then Spanner wasn’t public yet and a lot of people misinterpreted the CAP theorem to say that a strongly consistent database couldn’t also be highly available in the face of network faults.

- https://antithesis.com/blog/is_something_bugging_you/

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A lot of us worked at FoundationDB, but this is a new company (Antithesis) which develops autonomous testing and debugging tools.

By the way, that's one cool-looking cybernetic ant-eater. Is that what an ant-ithesis supposed to look like?

Thank you :) anteater is Antithesis mascot but this cyber version of it the only illustration I could come up with for the Determinator. There were other much more creepy versions :)

Probably referring to:

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/inside-clou...

https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/cap-theorem.html

Oh - it's just a standard CP database where, in the event of a partition, the partition knows it's the partition because it's smaller than a quorum and won't let you access it.

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