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if I were to sum up the counter-reaction to a lot of folks here who think that the claimed difficulty is too high: You're right, under the right conditions. Na
by mkramlich 16y ago
if I were to sum up the counter-reaction to a lot of folks here who think that the claimed difficulty is too high:
You're right, under the right conditions. Namely: small site, early in lifecycle, and a perfectly normalized and non-sharded/non-partitioned database.
But I suspect it's more complicated because:
1. they have a ton of traffic
2. they want to maintain a seamlessly perfect UX everywhere
3. their database is denormalized, sharded and/or partitioned
plus possibly:
4. it's gotten at least a little crufty with age (shrug, it happens)