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Hmm, actually global scale is wrong too - I retract that :) The problem arises regardless of 'scale' (number of users). To reiterate: the number of users (sca

by innes 15y ago

Hmm, actually global scale is wrong too - I retract that :) The problem arises regardless of 'scale' (number of users). To reiterate: the number of users (scale) is irrelevant to the issue of problem names. I can see why someone sprinkled buzzwords on the HN title that didn't exist anywhere in the article, and weren't applicable though. Makes the issue sound more 'techie'.

saurik 15y ago
I wrote that article, and consider the title I assigned to it here on Hacker News to be its official title; this is also the title that I used when I linked to it on my Facebook Page. Why, therefore, it matters at all that these words "didn't exist anywhere in the article" is beyond me. As for "buzzwords", if you deal at all with Google employees, this becomes an irritating mantra: systems that have less than a hundred million users are often considered "toys" (and, to be clear, I can totally understand why this would be this way to these people). And yes: I think that the point that "this actually happens to everyone everywhere" is an interesting point, and was the first comment on this post by patio11. I found that a very interesting insight, as many of my examples are more "those cases that come up when dealing with a global user community full of interesting edge cases", which to me /defines/ "web scale".
- tantalor 15y ago
  Why, therefore, it matters at all that these words "didn't exist anywhere in the article" is beyond me. What is the purpose of the quotation marks then? Irony?
  - saurik 15y ago
    Yes. Again, that is the official title of the work: imagine that it had been at the top of the linked to page, ironic quotation marks and all.
- innes 15y ago
  With the benefit of time and reflection, I now think that the term web scale is fine in this context and I was just being a curmudgeon. For what it's worth, which admittedly isn't much!

by innes 15y ago

saurik 15y ago

I wrote that article, and consider the title I assigned to it here on Hacker News to be its official title; this is also the title that I used when I linked to it on my Facebook Page. Why, therefore, it matters at all that these words "didn't exist anywhere in the article" is beyond me. As for "buzzwords", if you deal at all with Google employees, this becomes an irritating mantra: systems that have less than a hundred million users are often considered "toys" (and, to be clear, I can totally understand why this would be this way to these people). And yes: I think that the point that "this actually happens to everyone everywhere" is an interesting point, and was the first comment on this post by patio11. I found that a very interesting insight, as many of my examples are more "those cases that come up when dealing with a global user community full of interesting edge cases", which to me /defines/ "web scale".

tantalor 15y ago
Why, therefore, it matters at all that these words "didn't exist anywhere in the article" is beyond me. What is the purpose of the quotation marks then? Irony?
- saurik 15y ago
  Yes. Again, that is the official title of the work: imagine that it had been at the top of the linked to page, ironic quotation marks and all.
innes 15y ago
With the benefit of time and reflection, I now think that the term web scale is fine in this context and I was just being a curmudgeon. For what it's worth, which admittedly isn't much!