Re:Optimizing Your Web App 100x Is Like Adding 99 Servers
by satyrnein on Saturday November 21, 2020 @07:02AM
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Most likely, squeezing 100x performance out of your code will significantly complicate it. For example, you're probably going to be dealing with cache invalidation a lot, and you will pay for that complexity forever, as you try to build new features.
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Re:Optimizing Your Web App 100x Is Like Adding 99 Servers
by ficklepickle on Saturday November 21, 2020 @11:01AM
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It depends on the baseline, I suppose. I could see code written (poorly) in a dynamic language to be 100x slower than necessary. Maybe it was fast enough when written, so nobody looked too hard. Inefficient DB queries, excessive IO.
But I agree with the sentiment. In a code base where performance matters, that level of optimization would often be impractical.
Re:Optimizing Your Web App 100x Is Like Adding 99 Servers
by throwaway189262 on Saturday November 21, 2020 @01:27PM
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It depends. In many benchmarks Java is 50X faster than Ruby. So having code 100X as fast can just mean choose a fast language and framework for your project