Acronym Fatigue Series part 1: CAP, ACID and friends

This is part of the AFS (Acronym Fatigue Series) I&rsquo;m working on. If you haven&rsquo;t, please read the introduction first to understand why I&rsquo;m wary of acronyms here . Note: CAP and ACID are useful concepts that every software engineer should know. This is not a criticism of the ideas behind the Acronyms. It&rsquo;s a criticism of engineers making mistakes due to their acronymic…