On: Scalability is overrated

[tester756]

>He wasn't stupid. He was very smart. He knew what he was doing. "Managed a Redis cluster" looks good on a resume. "Just used the database instead" does not.

Why not just lie that you did that?

How employer would check that, lol.

[JohnBooty → tester756]

If the person interviewing you actually knows their stuff, it will be much tougher to lie your way through the interview.

(I know... that's a big "if")

So it is beneficial to have actual experience instead of just lying about it.

Sometimes.

[tester756 → JohnBooty]

In this case if guy just adds redis instances where some apps just reads/writes a few entries,

then he'll probably have harder time anyway if the interviewer knows their stuff