Ask HN: What Technologies to Learn in 2020?

Re:Ask HN: What Technologies to Learn in 2020? by bufferoverflow on Sunday January 05, 2020 @05:32PM (#21964641)

So your proposed solution is to throw more hardware at the problem? It surely can work at the small scale, but why do it when you're talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars / mo in servers? Why not choose a proper high-performance language, at least for the parts that are slow?

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Re:Ask HN: What Technologies to Learn in 2020? by tomnipotent on Sunday January 05, 2020 @06:06PM (#21964865)

> So your proposed solution is to throw more hardware at the problem?

Yes. It's usually cheaper and better for the business, as has been proven time and time again. There's a reason the phrase "cheaper to throw hardware at it" is kinda a thing in our industry. It took Facebook a LONG time and many hundreds of developers before they needed to create HipHip/HHVM.

Even at a small startup, my team of 6 costs over $1MM/yr while our two dozen or so EC2 instances and other AWS resources cost less than $25k/yr. Hell yes I'm going to throw hardware at it.

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Re:Ask HN: What Technologies to Learn in 2020? by scarface74 on Sunday January 05, 2020 @07:01PM (#21965231)

Do you know how much hardware you can buy for the fully allocated cost of one developer?

In reality how many companies in the world have hundreds of thousands of dollars a month in servers?

Why not choose a high performance language? Maybe it’s easier to find developers in a certain language, maybe the developers are cheaper for a certain language or it may have a better ecosystem.

If I just needed a simple CRUD app and thought I could get a lot of cheap developers I might choose PHP (hypothetically) because I know PHP developers are cheap.

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