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Actually for twitter it could very well be the cheapest option when you consider what their imminent scala debacle will cost them. When you fail for three year
by moe 18y ago
Actually for twitter it could very well be the cheapest option when you consider what their imminent scala debacle will cost them.
When you fail for three years to stabilize one of the simplest imaginable architectures (pub/sub) then throwing some money at IBM to run your broken app off a big iron that "just doesn't care" doesn't seem unreasonable.
It could just buy them the time they need to cash out and be done.
- jonknee 18y ago> Actually for twitter it could very well be the cheapest option when you consider what their imminent scala debacle will cost them. Why is re-writing some of the system in Scala a debacle and or expensive? I haven't followed it too closely, but I got the impression that they have had success with it so far.
- moe 18y agoWhy is re-writing some of the system in Scala a debacle and or expensive? I haven't followed it too closely, but I got the impression that they have had success with it so far. Well, when you have a track record of screwing up on a fairly simple problem for 3 years straight then a switch of programming language will not magically solve that for you.
- rdouble 18y agoActually for twitter it could very well be the cheapest option At an industry event last fall, I suggested this very strategy to the newish VP of ops/engineering/scaling Twitter had just hired from the porn industry. My advice was Professor Frink-ish: "why not just buy one really big computer?" I was only half joking, but he wasn't impressed by my idea. Perhaps he remembered my name and that's why their recruiter has not called me back.