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Learning to be a developer is still a hodge-podge, unstructured process, scaling is definitely not taught and often talked about in extremely abstract terms bec
by mattmanser 13y ago
Learning to be a developer is still a hodge-podge, unstructured process, scaling is definitely not taught and often talked about in extremely abstract terms because a lot of authors have no clue themselves what is and isn't scalable.
A small VM can take huge amounts of traffic thrown at it. If you happen to be running basic PHP. But install wordpress and it's a whole other story.
Often until you've been hit by a spike like this you won't even know what is and isn't scalable.
- rhizome 13y agoThat's because scaling is not in the domain of developers, as much as Heroku/AWS/etc. strive to blur the lines. It's in system administration and architecture.
- mratzloff 13y agoIt's a collaborative process between all three. There are a thousand different ways developers can prevent (and conversely, enable) scalability.