Re:Lessons from Ancient File Systems
by banannaise on Monday July 29, 2024 @03:38PM
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Designing for 10x will probably get you to 100x just fine anyway. Scaling up the first 10x is already in the design, so that design only needs to scale another 10x. Scaling that second 10x will probably be just fine, if not ideal.
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Exactly. Perfect is the enemy of good, and good often the enemy of pragmatic (assuming we're using 'good' in the sense of 'what most engineers would think was a complete solution' not in the enlightened sense of 'meeting our actual needs for the near future').