Zed cites the rationale for web scale /dev/null (http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6995033/ http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6995033/). To thoroughly kill the jok

Zed cites the rationale for web scale /dev/null (http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6995033/ http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6995033/). 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).