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Google’s Spanner database is very likely an example of overcoming CAP. There’s more details here: https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub45855. From what i’ve read, Google is able to do this because they control the physical data transfer infrastructure (the nuts, bolts, cables) which in many cases is the reason why CAP is defeated.

Ive known friends in the South Indian state of Kerala (where the climate is very suited for vanilla cultivation) whose families are struggling to raise Vanilla as an intercrop in their existing plantations due to labour shortfall. As the article states, the main ingredient required here is cheap manual labour without which this venture is doomed to fail.