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What hardware is this running on, roughly? What the author was getting at, I think, was not that you can't do it, just that it's hard/expensive; you need fairly
by dflock 17y ago
What hardware is this running on, roughly? What the author was getting at, I think, was not that you can't do it, just that it's hard/expensive; you need fairly beefy hardware and experienced DBA's to manage horizontal scaleout manually.
- DanielBMarkham 17y agoIf that were the case, then I think the concluding sentences should be changed. When hundreds of companies and thousands of the brightest programmers and sysadmins have been trying to solve a problem for twenty years and still haven’t managed to come up with an obvious solution that everyone adopts, that says to me the problem is unsolvable.
- gaius 17y agoThat's a very curious statement, especially for HN. Why would you consider needing good, experienced people to be a disadvantage?
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- dflock 17y agoBecause that kind of hardware+DBA team is prohibitively expensive for a startup?
- gaius 17y agoHardware yes, but the basic premise of a startup is that your people are top-notch. Scalability doesn't imply building something up-front that can handle enormous loads - it means building something that can grow with you. As opposed to "oh crap, we've got some load now, better start again" a la Twitter.