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What’s crazy is the scale a modern computer can operate at. There _are_ problems that need more scale than that but they are the minority. Meanwhile it’s out of
by kasey_junk 5y ago
What’s crazy is the scale a modern computer can operate at. There _are_ problems that need more scale than that but they are the minority. Meanwhile it’s out of fashion to spend time improving application performance and instead people go horizontal early, with devastating complexity issues.
- viraptor 5y agoThat's why I mentioned "doesn't make financial sense" too. If you can throw another $X/mth box at it, or have engineers spend weeks improving the system's performance for the same effect... there's a point where scaling out makes way more sense. Whether that leads to complexity issues is really case-by-case.