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Even then, scaling is an almost self-solving issue, as it usually comes with money attached, which buys quite a lot of engineering hours spent on scaling things
by lambdadmitry 4y ago
Even then, scaling is an almost self-solving issue, as it usually comes with money attached, which buys quite a lot of engineering hours spent on scaling things. Overscaling in advance on the other hand with all of its associated complexity and slowdown killed many, many companies.
- 0xFACEFEED 4y agoInability to scale because the application was fundamentally unscalable has also killed many companies. And for those it didn't kill it significantly hurt their earning potential (and ultimately everyone's payout). There's a balance and it's more delicate than people give it credit these days. Don't get me wrong though... over-engineering and/or premature optimization is just as bad. But there is an opposite extreme as well.