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I always find the Rails/scalable thing to be a funny argument - especially on the startup-minded HN. You don't need scale at a startup. You need velocity. If y
by SkyPuncher 6y ago
I always find the Rails/scalable thing to be a funny argument - especially on the startup-minded HN.
You don't need scale at a startup. You need velocity. If you're hitting scale at a startup, you've done one of two things:
* Written absolutely terrible software
* Succeeded
Unless you've hit the second one, it will almost always be cheaper to simply spin up another server.
- EdwinLarkin 6y agoCould be because a lot of startups are just trying to squeeze just as much traffic as they can with very little capital involved. It's basically here's my app that does billions of things and wants billions of users and runs on potato thing.