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> So your proposed solution is to throw more hardware at the problem? Yes. It's usually cheaper and better for the business, as has been proven time and time a
by tomnipotent 7y ago
> So your proposed solution is to throw more hardware at the problem?
Yes. It's usually cheaper and better for the business, as has been proven time and time again. There's a reason the phrase "cheaper to throw hardware at it" is kinda a thing in our industry. It took Facebook a LONG time and many hundreds of developers before they needed to create HipHip/HHVM.
Even at a small startup, my team of 6 costs over $1MM/yr while our two dozen or so EC2 instances and other AWS resources cost less than $25k/yr. Hell yes I'm going to throw hardware at it.