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Accelerate large-scale applications with BOLT
- aetherspawn 8y agoI love how Facebook has solutions to problems that I just would have thrown more money at. But I wonder if it’s really cheaper to implement and support BOLT than just buy more servers.
- notacoward 8y agoDepends on how many servers. Facebook, Google, Amazon et al will gladly throw more hardware at a specific bottleneck. On the other hand, for more systemic kinds of slowness, even a 0.1% improvement translates into far more savings in hardware than the cost in developer salaries. When one cost is tied to scale and the other is relatively constant, a lot of tradeoffs are different for the big players than they are for smaller ones.
- sanxiyn 8y agoDupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17350122 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17350122