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Considering most of the times the startup at hand will fail anyway and the planned scale will not happen, building the initial architecture to be "web scale" is
by faeyanpiraat 4y ago
Considering most of the times the startup at hand will fail anyway and the planned scale will not happen, building the initial architecture to be "web scale" is a perfect example of YAGNI.
I had a similar experience, and it was a great lesson.
- papito 4y agoWe used to write software for pretty high-traffic systems using what is now underpowered CPUs, less RAM, and antiquated databases. It should be easier now, NOT harder. Most of development I see today is resume-driven and not based in any pragmatism.