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overengineeringEverythingForBetterScaling
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the "o rly?" is sending me 😭
it's a meme from the time when i learned what a meme is.
but muh kubernetes!
How can I write a todo app without 20 nodes?!
Me in my private app, only used by me implementing pagination for the like 10 db entries I have...
Just had to make sure my Stripe integration could handle pagination when we'll have a max of 5 products and their max page size is 1000. Never know 🤷♂️
Ah, this must be the sequel to "cutting cloud costs when your AWS spend is already negligible".
Reminds me of the time at my previous job when around 2014-15 Cassandra was so popular our DB team migrated from Mysql to Cassandra so fast, then dealt with the scaling issues so hard they moved back to Mysql in a couple years.
What's up with putting animals on the covers of programming books?
The husband of one reader complained about our use of a spider on—and in—Webmaster in a Nutshell. Spiders terrified his wife. He went through the entire book and put white tape over the graphic on the first page of every chapter so she wouldn’t have to confront the spider.
What a fucking champ.
Hey, thanks for the link, it's a fantastic read!
Don't forget to never block your threads! Threads are a very scarce resource, you know?
I leave it to the reader to decide how much of this statement is sarcasm. Realistically, it depends…
YAGNIEFYR
You ain't gonna need it, except for your resume
the top line is too true it hurts
Why do you gotta call out my entire personality?!?!
Oh, you generate 3 data points a day?
Better make that a Kafka topic!
300 visitors?? Were gonna need seventeen web servers and eighty two micro services
We need those seperation of concerns!
What concerns you ask? No idea, but surely we can add another layer in between us and the database, just in case, to reduce the concerns you know.
I've been hanging out with Java and C# people for too long, please send help
Hobbyists worrying way too much about the scalability of their to-do list web application
but but but my to-do app will be different!
Except the stuff that has to scale. Those things lock rows in the database and just sits there.
Remember, optimization should always be prioritized! Benchmarks can come after "Wait, that was NOT the bottleneck?!"
Really funny...
Also known as does it scale down
Nonono, we don’t do that here
Cloud providers love you so much
I do agree most engineers have the tendency to way overscale at the outset.
Manually pushing and pulling stuff to an EC2 instance or similar gets quite annoying pretty fast though.
For early-ish stages (some users but no scale yet), I'd advocate for a single docker container running, and some sort of automated way to deploy when you push to certain branches. Something like Vercel for frontend.