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Resource constraints are a good thing. With constrained resources, developers are more elegant and efficient with their apps. Bandwidth, storage, CPU, memory h
by tonymet 3y ago
Resource constraints are a good thing. With constrained resources, developers are more elegant and efficient with their apps.
Bandwidth, storage, CPU, memory have all ben unconstrained for ~ 10 years now. Apps , Games and Websites are huge. ALGOs are sloppy.
Nothing will happen until the bloat becomes visible again. This time it will take deliberate measurement of the problem and discipline to address it.
- b112 3y agoThe DEV environments I crafted at work, all have constrained CPU, DB backend, and memory. After all, if you need gobs and gobs of CPU and RAM for a single user loading a web page, what on earth will PROD be like, with countless simultaneous page loads?? No, it doesn't slow down DEV work, coding takes place elsewhere. Shockingly(sarcasm), we've caught many resource issues, eg poor code, poor schema, lack of indexes or db optimization, before they hid prod and become disaster. AWS is hellish expensive, having a bill 10x what it could be is suboptimal. And the best way to prevent that, is resource constraints from day 1.