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I remember we had some discussions in management meetings about these 'what if' situations and they always end the same: once we have them,it means we now have
by cosmodisk 6y ago
I remember we had some discussions in management meetings about these 'what if' situations and they always end the same: once we have them,it means we now have tons of money and can hire people to do whatever needs to be done or simply throw money on available solutions. Worrying if your blog can handle 1M/day queries when you only have 2 readers doesn't make sense.
- codegeek 6y agoYea. If I had a nickel for everytime a customer asked "Can your system handle hundreds and thousands of concurrent users" and when asked how many they have now, the answer is "Oh we are just starting out but wanted to plan now", I would be a gazillionaire.
- Frost1x 6y agoThe problem is that responsibility and risk in busienss gets passed down to those that do the actual work. You're not really concerned about your blog going from 2 readers to 1M/day, you're concerned that iff your blog volume jumps that much, your job and perhaps livelihood may be on the line because the business doesn't understand why you didn't prepare for this and doesn't understand why you now suddenly need a bunch of more resources to accommodate this change in demand. Most all these long drawn out what-if discussions almost always dance around the real topic everyone's discussing: who is taking the risk and whose neck is on the line should things go south. If businesses were more willing to take reasonably accessible risks back from their employees doing the work, we'd have a lot less of these discussions. Instead they just go on and on. Who has to do what or will get fired and have to deal with explaining to future employers why they were fired. Instead, we end up passing as much risk as possible to customers and innovation suffers.