> No need to know what ACID is an acronym for Sure, but if you're mentoring a junior developer then I'd like to think you'd pass this knowledge on and make the

> No need to know what ACID is an acronym for Sure, but if you're mentoring a junior developer then I'd like to think you'd pass this knowledge on and make them understand its importance in a formal way, rather than some partial hand-wavey "this kinda means this". Get them to go and learn these fundamentals and test them on it, which is good for you because it keeps it fresh in your mind to just roll off the tongue at parties :)