Re:Optimizing Your Web App 100x Is Like Adding 99 Servers
by Dylan16807 on Saturday November 21, 2020 @01:56AM
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> The biggest thing we're going to regret looking back on the early Cloud era is the foolish notion that you need 100x as many servers to do 100x as much work.
> Between 100 + log(100) and 100 + sqrt(100).
I bet it doesn't even make the top ten. You have so many other problems by the time you're scaling to hundreds and thousands of servers and beyond. A few percent difference in server count? Whatever. That's still almost perfect scaling, and not going to be your bottleneck or your huge cost center.
> Between 100 + log(100) and 100 + sqrt(100).
I bet it doesn't even make the top ten. You have so many other problems by the time you're scaling to hundreds and thousands of servers and beyond. A few percent difference in server count? Whatever. That's still almost perfect scaling, and not going to be your bottleneck or your huge cost center.