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Do you know what the CAP theorem is, and can explain it to me like I'm 5? Can you tell me how a SQL DB fits into it, and where something like DynamoDB fits into it?

Congratulations, you are better than 95% of the people that I've interviewed out there saying they are experienced building distributed systems. Including system/solution architects.



Sad, but true. That said... the hiring pool tends to be biased towards people that others have passed on.


Sure, but the OP was talking about their difficulty during interviews; I'm just saying, they're almost assuredly better than the majority of the rest of the hiring pool. The company has an opening they need filled; they can only fill it with people from the hiring pool, not those who aren't in the hiring pool.




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