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>"It's meant to show that you don't need specialized "infinitely scalable" services." 1) This "revelation" has been known to any decent programmer for ages. 2
by FpUser 4y ago
>"It's meant to show that you don't need specialized "infinitely scalable" services."
1) This "revelation" has been known to any decent programmer for ages.
2) The example is very contrived and has zero real practical value as the access pattern, amount of tables involved, constraints and ACID requirements in real life are very different.
- antonvs 4y agoYou're correct. Posts like these are made by people who haven't actually tried to scale the approaches they're advocating.
- FpUser 4y agoI think articles like this are written to gain some points for employment purpose. If I was hiring however this type of article would be a net negative as it leaves me with the impression that the author has no clue about real life situations.