"Informally, I would summarize the CAP theorem as: If the network is broken, your database won’t work."
- Dwight Merriman, former CEO, and "one of the original authors of MongoDB" [1]
A word to the wise suffices. Sometimes the word in question is implied by other words.
For those who get this oblique post, note that throwing the above bon mot in an interview session for a "distributed systems engineer" and asking for an opinion is a excellent way to differentiate between Peter Principle and Principal Engineer.
- Dwight Merriman, former CEO, and "one of the original authors of MongoDB" [1]
A word to the wise suffices. Sometimes the word in question is implied by other words.
For those who get this oblique post, note that throwing the above bon mot in an interview session for a "distributed systems engineer" and asking for an opinion is a excellent way to differentiate between Peter Principle and Principal Engineer.
[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20100903213540/http://blog.mongo...