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Isn't "it's comparatively slow" what people usually mean with "doesn't scale"? You can scale anything with enough hardware, but as you mentioned at some point i
by arp242 3y ago
Isn't "it's comparatively slow" what people usually mean with "doesn't scale"? You can scale anything with enough hardware, but as you mentioned at some point is just becomes very expensive.
- byroot 3y ago> Isn't "it's comparatively slow" what people usually mean with "doesn't scale"? If that's the case, then they are misguided. > You can scale anything with enough hardware No, some architectures or implementations can give you diminishing returns or a hard cap. Not everything can scale horizontally ad infinitum.
- vidarh 3y agoTwitters architecture at the time was a textbook example of how not to build a large scale many-to-many social network. Maybe switching would've been worth it for them anyway, but the big thing they needed was fixing architectural choices they never should've made to start with.