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Horizontal scalability is not always easy, but it is always expensive. Startups especially tend to discover the latter the hard way when they receive surprise b
by enraged_camel 7y ago
Horizontal scalability is not always easy, but it is always expensive. Startups especially tend to discover the latter the hard way when they receive surprise bills from AWS.
- danmaz74 7y agoScaling horizontally a Rails application where the bottleneck is the Ruby code is always very easy - just add more instances working on the same DB. It is usually more difficult because the bottleneck is in the DB, not the Ruby code. You're right about price though; if the cost of compute is relevant in your business model - which, again, usually isn't the case - then doing that computation with Ruby on AWS isn't the best choice.
- maitredusoi 7y ago> surprise bills from AWS Surprise bills from AWS means it is time for refactoring ( and thus optimization time ;)