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Things were so much easier 15 years ago. I see very little gain for all the complexity we have added since then. Ok we can scale easily on demand, but the vast
by collyw 6y ago
Things were so much easier 15 years ago. I see very little gain for all the complexity we have added since then. Ok we can scale easily on demand, but the vast majority of places won't need to.
- fxtentacle 6y agoActually, we still can't scale easily on demand. Let's say you get 2x the traffic. Sure, your front-end instances in the cloud can scale to 2x the capacity, but that just moves the bottleneck over to your database. And then you noticed that scaling an Amazon RDS database to a larger instance requires downtime...