Re:Does it scale? Who cares (2011)
by acdha on Sunday April 09, 2017 @08:19AM
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> These services are developed by companies like TCS and Infosys
This is the real problem: lack of in-house expertise and ongoing incentives to maintain performance, while contractors are usually paid for features and, if they also do hosting, even have a financial disincentive for efficiency.
I would bet it's at least as likely that had someone thought of scaling it would have added a significant cost and delay to the actual project and the first major scalability bottleneck would still have been something unanticipated.
This is the real problem: lack of in-house expertise and ongoing incentives to maintain performance, while contractors are usually paid for features and, if they also do hosting, even have a financial disincentive for efficiency.
I would bet it's at least as likely that had someone thought of scaling it would have added a significant cost and delay to the actual project and the first major scalability bottleneck would still have been something unanticipated.