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It is rather odd to think about "scaling" to a single computer, isn't it? This is more bloat management than scaling.
by Aloisius 12y ago
It is rather odd to think about "scaling" to a single computer, isn't it? This is more bloat management than scaling.
- adwf 12y agoI was thinking much the same - the Gmail backend surely has scaling issues, but the frontend should be relatively simple. Afterall, you can still use the basic html view if you want, the ajax view is just some icing on the cake; it can't be that resource hungry unless there are bugs.
- robin_reala 12y agoThere are always bugs in complex applications (especially when JS makes it this easy) and people leave their Gmail tab open for weeks: not an auspicious combination.
- adwf 12y agoOh yes, I wasn't trying to criticize that. Every sufficiently large program will have bugs. It was just that the title implied this was a scaling issue, rather than a debugging issue.
- bla2 12y agoMaybe scaling as in "scaling a team"? But yeah, it sounds weird.
- chrisrhoden 12y agoIt seems to me that they're referring more to the size of the application. "GMail Scale" implies highly-interactive single page web applications with a lot of functionality, to me.