title: Why can't CP systems also be CAP?
body: <p>My <em>understanding</em> of the CAP acronym is as follows:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><strong>C</strong>onsistent: every read gets the most recent write</li>
  <li><strong>A</strong>vailable: every node is available</li>
  <li><strong>P</strong>artion Tolerant: the system can continue upholding A and C promises when the network connection between nodes goes down</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Assuming my understanding is more or less on track, then something is bother me.</p>
  
  <p>AFAIK, availability is achieved via any of the following techniques:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Load balancing</li>
  <li>Replication to a disaster recovery system</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>So if I have a system that I already <em>know</em> is CP, why can't I "<em>make it full CAP</em>" by applying one of these techniques to make it available as well? I'm sure I'm missing something important here, just not sure what.</p>