// Hacker Noon · 4 February 2026

CP Systems Explained, Part 2: Quorums, Consensus, and the Price of Being Right

This is Part 2 of a 4-part series covering the CAP theorem and distributed systems trade-offs. In Part 1, we examined the CAP. theorem holistically and its “pick two” myth. In this part, we look at what CP systems actually do under the hood when they choose consistency over availability.

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