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Sharding, replication & partitioningMediumSDE-2

In Cassandra with replication factor 3, explain how read and write consistency levels work. If you use QUORUM for both, are you guaranteed to read the latest write?

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Design a distributed key-value store (like DynamoDB) Lesson: Consistency models and quorums

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