Interns with toasters: how I taught people about load balancers

Re:Interns with toasters: how I taught people about load bal... by arkades on Sunday April 22, 2018 @09:04AM (#16895991)

I think the truth lies in the middle somewhere. I knew absolutely nothing about load balancing before reading OPs comment and the blog post, and while you’re correct that I wouldn’t have retained OPs bullet point version as well as Rachel’s, Rachel really went on at a length far beyond what was needed to tell the story / explain the concept (eg, the beach ball sized bag of bread).

People need an intuitive concept and image to grasp and reason on while they master an idea, but that doesn’t justify any arbitrary amount of over-elaborating.

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Re:Interns with toasters: how I taught people about load bal... by mrmanner on Sunday April 22, 2018 @11:20AM (#16896530)

I found that the (over)-elaboration made the article funnier to read. Since it's a Sunday, I wouldn't have read it if it was a boring, efficient, fact-crammed text reading like something from one of the more boring computer science classes I take. I did finish this though, and learned something on the way.

So my point is: There are times when efficient and to the point is called for, and there are times when it's not.

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