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I think people are just surprised that it takes so much work because we thought things would get easier as time went on. It's actually the opposite though as mo
by vsareto 4y ago
I think people are just surprised that it takes so much work because we thought things would get easier as time went on. It's actually the opposite though as more technologies have been developed. There's way more things involved in the stack and all of those can interact and break in their own interesting ways.
There is also just frankly more traffic to serve because of mobile devices, so more things break at scale.
- acdha 4y agoI’d also note that expectations have increased, too. Consider for example how much people expect to just work when they type text into a search box, when the corpus is gigantic, in many languages, and constantly updating.