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Don't scale: 99.999% uptime is for Wal-Mart

• iamelgringo 19y ago
  Interesting follow up here: http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=067a2eb8-85c0-4886-b35f-f32b1a46eab9 http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=067a2e... Even Big Co.'s like Microsoft and the GOOG have scalability issues.
• theoneill 19y ago
  This is from 2005...
  • thomasswift 19y ago
    .... and DHH wrote out his full name ... and DHH censored himself with a star in the ole f word
• hello_moto 19y ago
  Don't scale. Don't need a roadmap. Don't do UML. Don't do "X" where "X" is some Software Engineering principle. Take shortcuts! Seems to me that these guys don't want to do the painful and boring (but necessary) part of developing software.
  • pg 19y ago
    No; the reason to avoid most of these things is so that you can focus on something way more important: figuring out what the software should do. Exploratory programming is not a mere shortcut.
• henning 19y ago
  Or for people who use Erlang.
• tx 19y ago
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