Recently I was explaining this developer behavior to a colleague. I explained to him how I was weary of test cases being passed off as "corner cases" that didn't merit much attention. What I told him next he subsequently dubbed "Nigel's Law", so here it is:

The fringe, the boundary, the infrequent, the unlikely -- all occur quickly and often when operating software on large clusters with thousands of nodes.


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