👏 more 👏 developers 👏 need 👏 to 👏 hear 👏 this
I can count on one hand the number of my clients over the past couple of years who haven't either over-architected for scale or were unnecessarily concerned about it (prior to coming to me for strategic advice, of course 😉).
You don't need to understand Distributional Little's Law to figure this out, it's obvious with primary school level math.
(screenshot excerpt from https://tailscale.com/blog/new-internet)
This is funny - but kind of comparing apples with oranges.
There are just websites that are incredibly resource hungry.
Like google, YouTube, maps or anything that delivers great amounts of dynamic data to users.
And to brag, I could serve this manny users with a static page per hour on a 0.5W ASIC 💅💅💅
A phone is total overkill.
@m @ryantownsend
Exactly that, how are they comparing kuberenetes to... python and perl?
I get the idea that software can be bloated and there is no need for massive infrastructure for it to serve lots of requests (let me doubt about that absolute remark) but scaling tools have nothing to do with the underlying software efficiency.