Re:Ask HN: Why did you leave the tech industry?
by collyw on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @03:55PM
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I am going to start showing everyone the Stack Overflow architecture, a beautiful example of scaling up rather than the monstrosities generated by scaling out. There is the promise of cheaper hardware, but the developer costs must cancel this out, no?
I've become increasingly worn-out from this as well. It's strange that as an industry we parrot the "premature optimization is the root of all evil" line, yet we build out our tech stacks as if we were all part of FAANG.