"Yet, despite coming up with a distributed archiving system that works in production". The thing is, did he? Really? I know plenty of people who get things into

"Yet, despite coming up with a distributed archiving system that works in production". The thing is, did he? Really? I know plenty of people who get things into production and by working they mean, doing something that appears like what it's supposed to do. I usually find these are the people who blame everything else for why it's not working. A red flag is usually the phrase, "X isn't ready for prime time". The translation for that is, "I found something that I couldn't figure out and probably will never figure out so you better let me choose something else". These are the people who habitually bounce around from framework to framework. Oddly the more cutting edge it is the better. That way they're on the cutting edge so you need to expect problems, better than everyone else, and because they're better than everyone else you need to listen to them when they tell you, "It's not ready for prime time."