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Re:How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go by lifeisstillgood on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @05:49AM (#5367597)
I think there is a fine line between using a library and writin your own to understand better the domain

It's something to do with how critical the library functions are to you / your system. I would never write my own compression software, but I can see why people would just to learn about the trade offs.

Re:How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go by philh on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @09:36AM (#5368239)
Okay, but if I had known about the alternatives I would have used them, so I'm not sure how that's relevant.
Re:How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go by lifeisstillgood on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @11:17AM (#5369026)
philosophising really. I guess on the "actually helpful advice" level, I'm all out if the googles cant help.
Re:How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go by jorgeleo on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @07:28AM (#5367789)
I have nothing interesting to say, I just wanted to see how far the left indentation can go