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I've seen my share of insanely over-engineered Azure locked-in applications that could easily have been run on an open source stack on a $20 VM.
by abujazar 1y ago
I've seen my share of insanely over-engineered Azure locked-in applications that could easily have been run on an open source stack on a $20 VM.
- hedora 1y agoBut what if payroll grows to 100M internal users?
- abujazar 1y agoYea, and what if my country suddenly grows by 10000%?
- WJW 1y agoSeems like a great problem to have. Surely one of those millions of employees can be used to change the current system at that point. Until then, no reason to overengineer it.
- roncesvalles 1y agoI sense sarcasm but just to add on, most software problems actually have very predictable natural upper bounds. There are only X number of people in the world growing at a well-defined rate. There are only X number of people in your country, or in your TAM (e.g. if you're a restaurant) etc. This is especially true for B2B. The need to accommodate runaway scale (unbounded N and unbounded rate of growth of N) is actually quite rare.