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As opposed to what problem? Like I can honestly have trouble listing too many business problems/areas that would fail to scale with their expected user count,
by gf000 1y ago
As opposed to what problem?
Like I can honestly have trouble listing too many business problems/areas that would fail to scale with their expected user count, given reasonable hardware and technical competence.
Like YouTube and Facebook are absolute outliers. Famously, stackoverflow used to run on a single beefy machine (and the reason they changed their architecture was not due to scaling issues), and "your" startup ain't needing more scale than SO.
- bccdee 1y agoScaling to a lot of reads is relatively easy, but you get into weird architectural territory once you hit a certain volume of writes. Anything involving monitoring or real-time event analysis can get hairy. That's when stuff like kafka becomes really valuable.