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It's better to accept a tad more complexity upfront than having to figure out midflight how to scale an unscalable solution. Perhaps another good example is ho
by rumanator 7y ago
It's better to accept a tad more complexity upfront than having to figure out midflight how to scale an unscalable solution.
Perhaps another good example is how voat failed to capitalize on reddit's mass exodus because mostly their service was rendered unusable by their apparent inability to scale.
- mburst 7y agoI think Kubernetes adds quite a bit of complexity if you've never worked with it before. As does any technology though really. Much easier these days to drag sliders right for more server resources if needed from AWS, GCP, Heroku, etc. Sure it'll cost more, but you have 100mil users and if your system doesn't scale horizontally you probably have a problem that isn't going to be solved by Kubernetes or any other orchestration system. As an aside I think Voat failed because the community that came was toxic and the team behind it had no intentions of quelling it. https://gizmodo.com/goodbye-and-good-riddance-to-voat-reddits-gross-clone-1795337099 https://gizmodo.com/goodbye-and-good-riddance-to-voat-reddit...