Old box, dumb code, few thousand connections, no big deal

Re:Old box, dumb code, few thousand connections, no big deal by hedora on Thursday May 07, 2020 @09:23PM (#23110402)

I think the analogy to mechanical engineering is something like this:

A seasoned engineer notices that everyone is only building suspension bridges all of a sudden.

They point out that you can span a stream with some bricks or rocks and a bit of mortar, and are ridiculed.

Next, they build a highway overpass out of concrete pylons, and stress test it to 10x the necessary engineering load, and point out it cost 10% as much as a typical contemporary suspension bridge. That’s this article.

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Re:Old box, dumb code, few thousand connections, no big deal by kragen on Friday May 08, 2020 @01:37PM (#23117348)

Or vice versa: they notice that everyone is only building concrete bridges all of a sudden, disregarding the traditional and much cheaper approach of hanging boards under some rope handrails; upon being ridiculed, they build a suspension bridge across a river for 10% as much as a concrete bridge.

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