2008-12-09
post/63869391
quote 10:49:00
“ It’s taken for granted that The Cloud will solve scalability issues because, of course, why optimize when you can just fire up more servers to run your sluggish code? Or, when you get popular, rewrite, and never mind the second-system effect.
The difference between investor-responsible, cost-driven development and put-the-prototype-in-production hackery can be serious money. In a recession economy, my hunch is that this haphazard latter approach to engineering is going to be one of the first things to go.
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Alex Payne (via buzzandersen)
