[jrumbut]

It's poor timing for this article.

The CrowdStrike incident has demonstrated that no matter what you do it is possible for any distributed system to be partitioned in such a way that you have to choose between consistency and availability and if the system is important then that choice is important.

[imtringued]

You're ignoring that a system is temporarily partitioned for the duration of the time it takes to retrieve information from all nodes.

Partition intolerance means you can only proceed when all nodes have been reached. This means partition intolerance not only deals with availability in the yes or no sense, but also in terms of latency.

[darby_nine]

That's true, but I think the catch is that most customers likely didn't view it as an investment that could decrease availability.