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This is a ridiculous myth that I wish we could just put to rest once and for all. If your overpaid programmers are writing O(n^2) algorithms then that cheap hardware is going to get expensive real quick. Even if hardware was free you still need to put it somewhere, power it, cool it and so on. There's no excuse for sloppy coding.
Am I the only one thinking those salary figures are around 30-40K too low?
This is a ridiculous myth that I wish we could just put to rest once and for all. If your overpaid programmers are writing O(n^2) algorithms then that cheap hardware is going to get expensive real quick. Even if hardware was free you still need to put it somewhere, power it, cool it and so on. There's no excuse for sloppy coding.
If you need to scale, you need to have a good architectural path from the beginning. I've talked to too many companies whose growth is constrained by the need to re implement from the ground up, right in the middle of the hockey stick growth. What I mean is a little bit of thought at the beginning, not months of agonizing or 9 tons of frameworks. Given that, you can throw hardware at it and let your programmers add value.
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If your overpaid programmers are writing O(n^2) algorithms then that cheap hardware is going to get expensive real quick. Well, that depends on the value of n , right? Not every piece of software is Google or Twitter: They don't all have a userbase that grows virally to encompass every breathing human in existence, plus animals and robots. Especially if you charge the users money.
Not every piece of software is Google or Twitter: Worse, almost all software isn't like a Google or Twitter. In almost all cases hardware is vastly cheaper than programmers. The Googles and Twitters of the world are extreme outliers and are no where near the median.
The average irc server probably handles more than twitter - certainly email software does.
There's a ton of software that needs to scale, and be able to handle a large volume of data.
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Not every piece of software is Google or Twitter: Worse, almost all software isn't like a Google or Twitter. In almost all cases hardware is vastly cheaper than programmers. The Googles and Twitters of the world are extreme outliers and are no where near the median.
I don't believe that's true. Google sure, but twitter is just another message routing system, like any one of the IM networks. The average irc server probably handles more than twitter - certainly email software does. There's a ton of software that needs to scale, and be able to handle a large volume of data.
http://www.hueniverse.com/hueniverse/2008/03/on-scaling-a-mi...
(Many thanks to Eran Hammer-Lahav for writing this so that I don't have to.)
This is a ridiculous myth that I wish we could just put to rest once and for all. If your overpaid programmers are writing O(n^2) algorithms then that cheap hardware is going to get expensive real quick. Even if hardware was free you still need to put it somewhere, power it, cool it and so on. There's no excuse for sloppy coding.
Although, when it comes to custom intranet apps, N is usually tiny.