* http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1926... - including a very nice way of thinking about CAP and tradeoffs)
* http://www.infoq.com/articles/cap-twelve-years-later-how-the... - a good perspective on CAP, and why many people still don't understand it clearly.
* http://lpd.epfl.ch/sgilbert/pubs/BrewersConjecture-SigAct.pd... - don't get put off by the formal language. Gilbert and Lynch is still (IMO) the best explanation of what CAP means, and what it implies.
* http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2010/04/cap-confusion-problems... - Some good criticism of the way CAP is frequently explained.
* http://codahale.com/you-cant-sacrifice-partition-tolerance/ - Why CA systems don't actually exist.
* http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/dna/papers/abadi-pacelc.pdf - PACELC, maybe a better model.
* http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2010/04/problems-with-cap-an... - Another look at PACELC, with some examples.
* http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1926... - including a very nice way of thinking about CAP and tradeoffs)
* http://www.infoq.com/articles/cap-twelve-years-later-how-the... - a good perspective on CAP, and why many people still don't understand it clearly.
* http://lpd.epfl.ch/sgilbert/pubs/BrewersConjecture-SigAct.pd... - don't get put off by the formal language. Gilbert and Lynch is still (IMO) the best explanation of what CAP means, and what it implies.
* http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2010/04/cap-confusion-problems... - Some good criticism of the way CAP is frequently explained.
* http://codahale.com/you-cant-sacrifice-partition-tolerance/ - Why CA systems don't actually exist.
* http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/dna/papers/abadi-pacelc.pdf - PACELC, maybe a better model.
* http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2010/04/problems-with-cap-an... - Another look at PACELC, with some examples.