Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing

So it's not like there is a main thing, but...

In any case, so CAP theorem, it's actually a concept which was defined by the computer scientist Eric Brewer on a conference which is called PODC in the beginning of this century, in 2000.

And basically, this theorem states that if you have a distributed system, it can only provide two or three properties, which basically create the word CAP, like C-A-P.

And those three letters are actually properties.