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Hmm I dunno, this architecture feels simple in some ways but genuinely pretty complex in others. Like they defined their own protocol? That's pretty not-simple.
by hardwaregeek 3y ago
Hmm I dunno, this architecture feels simple in some ways but genuinely pretty complex in others. Like they defined their own protocol? That's pretty not-simple.
It's like the StackOverflow example. Sure, the architecture is conceptually simple, but you still bought servers and are maintaining them yourself. That's pretty complicated unto itself. Probably the right decision, but not the "simplest".
- SPascareli13 3y agoThis is the thing about simple things, usually to maintain a simple "face" they require quite a lot of sophistication on the inside. Like the stackoverflow example, they have a simple architecture, but to make that work they did a lot of very low level optimizations, have a deep understanding of their stack and database, and also hosted their own servers. Basically, it takes a lot of skill to build something "simple".