[junkilo]

one from the devops/sre trenches...

> (devops guy) hi, im here for the lead devops role > (CTO) awesome, you'd be a great fit here. can you write a sudoku solver in ruby real quick? > (devops guy) [writes solver in ruby] > (CTO) wow looks great... when can you start? do you have any questions for me? > (devops guy) I do have a question: how do you shard your bigdata installations and what is it built on? > (CTO) oh I wrote my own, we call it redisbigtable -- its the worlds first CAP compliant data store. oh, and we shard by customer. > (devops guy) thank you for your time.

[dlitz]

> (CTO) Look, we're a startup; we don't have time for the perfect solution here. You should consider being more pragmatic...

[killface]

to be pedantically fair, most people who use the CAP theorem to describe a system aren't following the academic usages of C, A, and P, and thus are probably describing the system incorrectly. Look at this discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4156359