No I won't. However there is an important point that philosophy doesn't matter when times are good. Its only when the tool is misused or there's a malfunction

No I won't. However there is an important point that philosophy doesn't matter when times are good. Its only when the tool is misused or there's a malfunction that the underlying philosophy even shows up. It doesn't matter which system you use when you try to store Aug 1 2016 into a date column, but (at least in the old days) it was very interesting trying to store February 30th into the databases. Insert anyway with a warning? Round up, down, or stick in a null? Normalize it to being March 2nd ish? Insert fails completely with an error? This has varies with time and configuration but in a "general sweep of history" manner you can guess correctly most of the time what each DB does. Also there's nothing wrong in any way with a critical system that drops into philosophical best effort mode during a crisis rather than paralytic halt mode. Well, there's nothing wrong with it as long as the system was engineered with that in mind and neither the dev nor ops people are surprised by that behavior. Sometimes that is the right thing to do.