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Re:Reining in the thundering herd: Getting to 80% CPU utiliz... by jimsimmons on Sunday August 15, 2021 @05:54PM (#28192901)
Python is not astronomically inefficient. Instagram serves like a billion users with it. Job of a cofounder is to build what people want. You can always scale in Silicon Valley by hiring people like you. You can’t build another viral app like clubhouse by hiring from the same crowd.

This may hurt you but the truth is scaling and software engineering is highly commoditised. That’s the whole point of being in the valley. You can hire people for such things and forget about it.

Clubhouse is not a tech company. They don’t have to care about being the best at infra

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Re:Reining in the thundering herd: Getting to 80% CPU utiliz... by lmilcin on Sunday August 15, 2021 @07:47PM (#28193620)
> Python is not astronomically inefficient.

Well, it is. It is a fact.

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/03/07/costly/

> Clubhouse is not a tech company.

When you spin 1000s of nodes you need some tech competency.

Or in other words, if it blew one day and there would be a link to writeup on HN, people would be asking "They had 1000s of servers and nobody competent to maintain it?"

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