<i>He will also talk about how RethinkDB fits into the CAP theorem (they chose CA)</i><p>There's no such thing as "choosing CA". You can't "choose" to not have partitions any more than you can "choose" to never have hard drives fail. The question is, <i>when</i> things fail (yes, when, not if) how does your system respond?<p>Alas, I'm in Vancouver, not San Francisco, so I can't attend and rant about this in person.