20 ms·

Why is it nonsense? Sounds reasonable to me.

• blitzar 5mo ago
  > its ceiling (both typical and absolute) is far lower If you plan to remaining smaller than instagram, the ceiling is comfortably above you.
  • jasdfwasd 5mo ago
    I plan to remain smaller than two VMs
  • pdimitar 5mo ago
    There are a myriad middle states in-between "frupid" (so frugal that it's stupid) and "Instagram scale". Python requires much more hand-holding that many don't want to do for good reasons (I prefer to work on the product unimpeded and not feeling pride having the knowledge to babysit obsolete stacks carried by university nostalgia). With Go, Rust, Zig, and a few others -- it's a single binary. In this same HN thread another person said it better than me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47737151 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47737151
  • Capricorn2481 5mo ago
    This is a post about keeping your infrastructure simple, so Instagram is not a good ceiling to pick. People do all kinds of hacks to scale Python before they hit Instagram levels
  • chrismorgan 5mo ago
    The context was explicitly single machine.