Does it scale? Who cares (2011)
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Does it scale? Who cares (2011)
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Re: Does it scale? Who cares (2011)
#2I like the overall idea here. Focus on building something quality first then worry about scaling later. Most servers can handle a decent amount of traffic. Seems like common sense to me. I guess some people can get too hung up on engineering to make their site scale before actually deploying or innovating on the product. Wonder if people have encountered this in the workplace before?
Re: Does it scale? Who cares (2011)
#3He makes the valid point that performance for each individual user, like page load time, does matter. Just that building for an audience size you don't yet have is mostly wasted time.
Seems reasonable. I wonder, though, if PHP feels like an anchor to the average Facebook developer. I realize they architected around it, but it must have some effect on recruiting, retention, etc. I use PHP myself, and don't hate it, but the stigma is there.
Re: Does it scale? Who cares (2011)
#4He makes the valid point that performance for each individual user, like page load time, does matter. Just that building for an audience size you don't yet have is mostly wasted time. Seems reasonable. I wonder, though, if PHP feels like an anchor to the average Facebook developer. I realize they architected around it, but it must have some effect on recruiting, retention, etc. I use PHP myself, and don't hate it, bu…
Any stigma should be prioritizing tech over the business. Your business exists to turn a profit, stack be damned.
Re: Does it scale? Who cares (2011)
#5He makes the valid point that performance for each individual user, like page load time, does matter. Just that building for an audience size you don't yet have is mostly wasted time. Seems reasonable. I wonder, though, if PHP feels like an anchor to the average Facebook developer. I realize they architected around it, but it must have some effect on recruiting, retention, etc. I use PHP myself, and don't hate it, bu…
1) FB uses a lot of languages other than Hack
2) Hack is fairly reasonable language even has pipe operator :)
3) While it is prevailing sentiment that PHP sux I think PHP 7 is fairly reasonable language
Re: Does it scale? Who cares (2011)
#6He makes the valid point that performance for each individual user, like page load time, does matter. Just that building for an audience size you don't yet have is mostly wasted time. Seems reasonable. I wonder, though, if PHP feels like an anchor to the average Facebook developer. I realize they architected around it, but it must have some effect on recruiting, retention, etc. I use PHP myself, and don't hate it, bu…
Any stigma should be prioritizing tech over the business. Your business exists to turn a profit, stack be damned.
That works to motivate some employees, assuming their comp is relative to your business success. Facebook has been able to do that for some time, but there's probably a plateau or two in their future.
Re: Does it scale? Who cares (2011)
#7He makes the valid point that performance for each individual user, like page load time, does matter. Just that building for an audience size you don't yet have is mostly wasted time. Seems reasonable. I wonder, though, if PHP feels like an anchor to the average Facebook developer. I realize they architected around it, but it must have some effect on recruiting, retention, etc. I use PHP myself, and don't hate it, bu…
1) FB uses a lot of languages other than Hack 2) Hack is fairly reasonable language even has pipe operator :) 3) While it is prevailing sentiment that PHP sux I think PHP 7 is fairly reasonable language
Even ignoring the innumerable flaws PHP (yes including 7) has as a language, its standard library is among the worst standard libraries of any language.
Re: Does it scale? Who cares (2011)
#8I liked the article and agree with its premise. But as a side question, why do developers use so many parenthetical expressions?
Those ideas (like this one, which happens to add nothing) are often either throwaway statements (like this one) or are by themselves complete thoughts that should be a separate sentence. (I see this so often in posts written by devs.)
Re: Does it scale? Who cares (2011)
#9He makes the valid point that performance for each individual user, like page load time, does matter. Just that building for an audience size you don't yet have is mostly wasted time. Seems reasonable. I wonder, though, if PHP feels like an anchor to the average Facebook developer. I realize they architected around it, but it must have some effect on recruiting, retention, etc. I use PHP myself, and don't hate it, bu…
Any stigma should be prioritizing tech over the business. Your business exists to turn a profit, stack be damned.
The business isn't your concern if you don't work there yet.
i.e. it's not bad to avoid working somewhere because they use PHP. That's not 'prioritising tech over business', it's just choosing to avoid toxic crap technology.
Re: Does it scale? Who cares (2011)
#10Ok but please don't do things like using nested array searches with bad runtime when you can use hashmaps instead. I hate seeing code or using programs that are extremely unoptimized.