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NGP-VAN, which is probably the most important company in the Democratic sphere, uses a Microsoft stack. And it didn't lead to a spate of post-election recrimina
by scarmig 14y ago
NGP-VAN, which is probably the most important company in the Democratic sphere, uses a Microsoft stack. And it didn't lead to a spate of post-election recriminations about how its tech fell apart.
- lifeguard 14y agoUsing the MS stack for a situation where you will have huge spikes of activity on an app with an expected lifespan of less than 24 hours is not best practice.
- acdha 14y agoI'm an open source developer – working on Linux servers since 1997 or so, etc. etc. Please stop what you're doing: it's not very funny and it's not helpful, but it does give OSS people a bad reputation. You can host plenty of high volume things on Microsoft's code – Azure, Bing, etc. have proven scale. We can argue about cost, ease of use, etc. but a decent team should have no trouble making a serious service. The problem here is that they didn't hire a decent team – from the sounds of it, it was the usual executive-level schmoozing and managerial incomplete you see throughout large organizations of every type. They could have used HN'a favorite stack and failed just as hard.
- lifeguard 14y agoHey, dogs can swim but that doesn't mean I use them to pull a barge up the river. I will not shut up about the ground truth I and many other people know about Microsoft and their software.
- acdha 14y agoThe way you're doing it won't will anyone over. Open source has been winning where I work because we've demonstrated better results with less cost. I suggest you try to outperform rather than out-market.
- waqf 14y ago> managerial incomplete I'm guessing you wrote this post using autocompetence?
- acdha 14y agoSigh, yes. iOS auto-uncorrection to the rescue!
- lifeguard 14y agoThis comment reminds me of AL Gore lecturing Frank Zapa.
- eli 14y agoA poor craftsman blames their tools.