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>realistically if your little app blows up to that level, you can figure out how to break it apart into 'micro' services I disagree, when your little app blows
by colemannugent 9y ago
>realistically if your little app blows up to that level, you can figure out how to break it apart into 'micro' services
I disagree, when your little app blows up and your backend dies, then you could very well miss your big break. In this crazy world of overnight success you need to be ready to handle the HN or Reddit hug-of-death.
Maybe you don't need to split your infrastructure into services, but doing so makes scaling a breeze.
- GiorgioG 9y agoYou can scale monoliths. Twitter did it until it could retool (remember the more-or-less daily fail whale?) Disqus & Pinterest scaled django to more users than most of us will ever have. https://blog.disqus.com/scaling-django-to-8-billion-page-views https://blog.disqus.com/scaling-django-to-8-billion-page-vie...
- scarface74 9y agoTwitter is the perfect counter example of how to build for scaleability. Not only becUse of the fail whale you mentioned, but Twitter is still a bloated mess of an organization.