[1k]

This exactly. It is more important to move fast. Screw the edge cases. As long as it’s correct _most_ of the time, you can always fix anything that’s broken tomorrow.

[pavel_lishin]

It's called "eventual consistency".

[sho_hn]

And C10k was never about those 10.000 socket connections getting the right response, either!

[whatever1]

Why on earth did the software engineering interviews were checking candidates’ ability to think about edge cases? Clearly management does not care.