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Re:AWS X1 instances – 1.9 TB of memory by breischl on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @06:37PM (#11726584)
Definitely the culture. It seems to be a Java axiom that you should never use one object when eight will do.

I've never seen another community that would actually have a builder for the configuration for the factory for the settings for a class.

Re:AWS X1 instances – 1.9 TB of memory by granos on Thursday May 19, 2016 @07:57AM (#11729487)
This is over a decade old now, but is still very appropriate http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?joel.3.219431.12
Re:AWS X1 instances – 1.9 TB of memory by mpd on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @07:48PM (#11726954)
I assume you've never had the pleasure of configuring a Sendmail installation?
Re:AWS X1 instances – 1.9 TB of memory by ddalex on Thursday May 19, 2016 @04:35AM (#11728824)
Actually configuring sendmail is a piececake these days thanks to Google and countless engineers documenting in excruciating detail the problems they faced.