A couple years ago I was sitting at a poker table for my final interview for a sys admin position with . It had been a long day of mentally exhausting questions, and the interview was coming to a close. The person I was interviewing with sat for a moment and pondered his next question for me.
“You’ve got a building across the street with a bunch of data on a server. The building is on fire. You’ve got a connection between the two buildings. What’s the fastest way to get the data over to you before the building burns down?”