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A lot of modern web engineering is built for problems most people won't have.
by nemo44x 4y ago
A lot of modern web engineering is built for problems most people won't have.
- nine_k 4y agoThe people strive to have these problems! Hockey stick growth, servers melting under signup requests, payment systems struggling under the stream of subscription payments! Scale up, up, up! And for that you might want to run your setup under k8s since day one, just in case, even though a single inexpensive server would run the whole thing with a 5x capacity reserve. But that would feel like a side project, not a startup!
- Nextgrid 4y agoI'd argue that a lot of modern web engineering pretends to be built for problems must people won't have. So much resume-driven-development is being done on making select, easy parts super scalable while ignoring some elephants in the room such as the datastore. A good example is the obsession with "fast" web frameworks on your application servers, completely ignoring the fact that your database will be the first to give up even in most "heavy" web frameworks' default configurations without any optimization efforts.