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No, not everything is trivial at small scale. Scale is not everything in software development, it just happens to be the most common hard problem web devs will
by EpicEng 10y ago
No, not everything is trivial at small scale. Scale is not everything in software development, it just happens to be the most common hard problem web devs will face. There's a whole world of software out there that isn't web development. Some problems are just hard, regardless of scale.
- dunkelheit 10y agoMoving the goalposts. A comment above you have presented "tuning DB's for applications which have to handle hundreds of thousands or millions of transactions per second" as your example of a hard problem. Everything that is hard about it comes from scale.