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Assuming the code is well factored and the database access code isn't littered all over your code base. I'm not sure I would consider this technical debt. Also
by rejschaap 11y ago
Assuming the code is well factored and the database access code isn't littered all over your code base. I'm not sure I would consider this technical debt.
Also, if Twitter and Facebook started out building their product to be used by millions of users, they would have gotten nowhere. They would have 0 users right now.
You can't really say Facebook took the easy path either. They went as far as creating a virtual machine and dialect based on PHP. And who knows what they had to do to get MySQL to scale like that.