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Re:HTML5 App on a Floppy Disk by Dylan16807 on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @09:57PM (#5678336)
We're talking about static files, right? If you're trying to scale those should be nowhere near your application server. They get served from a CDN and the size is completely irrelevant to technical scaling issues.
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Re:HTML5 App on a Floppy Disk by TheZenPsycho on Thursday May 09, 2013 @12:38AM (#5678857)
Because CDN's are magic and have zero cost?
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Re:HTML5 App on a Floppy Disk by Dylan16807 on Thursday May 09, 2013 @11:20AM (#5680870)
Money is easy. It's not part of the difficulty of scaling. 1000x the static traffic means 1000x the bandwidth heading to simple, independent, easy to load balance servers. Difficulty added per user: zero. Cost per user: the same or less.

There are many reasons to want small files, but scaling isn't one of them.

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