If the US Market for SWEs is on fire why isn’t Europe’s, or India’s?

Re:If the US Market for SWEs is on fire why isn’t Europe’s, ... by nradov on Sunday March 06, 2022 @01:19AM (#30575476)

Wouldn't it be easier to just use a higher performance application server instead of rewriting Tomcat?

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Re:If the US Market for SWEs is on fire why isn’t Europe’s, ... by kragen on Sunday March 06, 2022 @01:30AM (#30575512)

I don't know the situation of the company, but very often the answer to "Wouldn't it be easier to just change platforms?" is just "no".

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Re:If the US Market for SWEs is on fire why isn’t Europe’s, ... by david38 on Sunday March 06, 2022 @02:38AM (#30575765)

So, say you have 500 machines serving something. This rewrite allows you to bring it down to 100.

This code change saves you 400 instances x 24 hrs x 365 x aws cost per hour. And the next year, and the year after that, and maybe the one after that too.

Throwing more metal at the problem is the favored solution when the issue is transient, the company doesn’t scale, or the company is shitty.

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Re:If the US Market for SWEs is on fire why isn’t Europe’s, ... by nradov on Sunday March 06, 2022 @08:23AM (#30577422)

I wasn't suggesting throwing more hardware at the problem. There are higher performance application servers available.

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