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Re:Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails by faeyanpiraat on Friday April 07, 2023 @06:20AM (#35480069)
Considering most of the times the startup at hand will fail anyway and the planned scale will not happen, building the initial architecture to be "web scale" is a perfect example of YAGNI.

I had a similar experience, and it was a great lesson.

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Re:Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails by papito on Monday April 10, 2023 @09:06AM (#35511797)
We used to write software for pretty high-traffic systems using what is now underpowered CPUs, less RAM, and antiquated databases. It should be easier now, NOT harder. Most of development I see today is resume-driven and not based in any pragmatism.
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