[vmaurin]

Plot twist: in the article drawings, replica one and two are split by network, and it could fail.

The author seems to not understand what the meaning of the P in CAP

[hinkley]

I missed your comment and just made the same comment with different words. He literally has a picture of a partition.

[jvanderbot]

"Non failing node" does not mean "Non partitioned node", simple as that.

If you treat a partitioned node as "failed", then CAP does not apply. You've simply left it out cold with no read / write capability because you've designated a "quorum" as the in-group.