To thoroughly kill the joke, the idea is that you can write really fast software by writing your output to /dev/null (vs. disk) which basically makes write a NOP. Of course, it's completely useless in practice :)
web scale and sharding are just two other overused terms from the cited video (making fun of NoSQL fanboys).
To thoroughly kill the joke, the idea is that you can write really fast software by writing your output to /dev/null (vs. disk) which basically makes write a NOP. Of course, it's completely useless in practice :)
web scale and sharding are just two other overused terms from the cited video (making fun of NoSQL fanboys).