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Re:Does it scale? Who cares (2011) by user5994461 on Sunday April 09, 2017 @08:04AM (#14071868)
Having worked on corporate Python platform with tens of thousands of developers and thousands of applications running on thousands of instances on millions of lines common core code base, I beg to differ.

It is easy to ship any proof of concept. Is it hard to maintain, it is rigged with performance issues and it is almost impossible to refactor because python has zero refactoring support and no compiler to help you catch any error.

What you save on the initial rollout, you loose ten folds on the long term.

Re:Does it scale? Who cares (2011) by franciscop on Sunday April 09, 2017 @09:41AM (#14072219)
But that is basically the point of the whole article and this thread, that it's great for proof of concept that morphs into production when needed. If you can deploy in one day that means you can test 5 ideas/week until one catches on (hopefully not that long). Once one catches on, you can actually put more effort into it and optimize it as needed and not the other way around.
Re:Does it scale? Who cares (2011) by user5994461 on Sunday April 09, 2017 @10:03AM (#14072327)
You can't try 5 products or features a week on real users. They don't keep up.
Re:Does it scale? Who cares (2011) by nickpsecurity on Sunday April 09, 2017 @12:59PM (#14073190)
Re:Does it scale? Who cares (2011) by inetknght on Sunday April 09, 2017 @01:09PM (#14073238)
If you're looking to Facebook for your user experience guidelines, you're going to end up angering a lot of actual users.
Re:Does it scale? Who cares (2011) by nickpsecurity on Sunday April 09, 2017 @04:28PM (#14074205)
While making millions to billions dominating a market I own. So, sure. Other circumstances it would just teach you can experiment more than a few things a week.
Re:Does it scale? Who cares (2011) by user5994461 on Sunday April 09, 2017 @01:58PM (#14073492)
Facebook have thousands of products and billions of users. You do not ;)
Re:Does it scale? Who cares (2011) by nickpsecurity on Sunday April 09, 2017 @04:28PM (#14074208)
Now that's a better point. Obviously, the amount of changes are tied to company's circumstances.