Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software

Re:Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software by qaq on Sunday June 18, 2023 @02:33PM (#36382941)

Now you have a whole bunch of New SQL databases that will scale past whatever number of users you can imagine. So your good old Django or Rails app can scale to 1M or 10M users without you doing anything exotic. That's not "fun" though.

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Re:Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software by wasimanitoba on Monday June 19, 2023 @06:56AM (#36389587)

I wonder if you've ever seen this classic video mocking such marketing claims which is called "MongoDB is Web Scale": https://youtu.be/b2F-DItXtZs

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Re:Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software by qaq on Monday June 19, 2023 @08:36AM (#36390363)

Have you ever seen Spanner? things don't stay static. And yes I have seen those vidoes since I've being doing web dev since 1999.

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