Comment by qwertyuiop924
9 years ago
...I'm not sure if it does. Bain's Law still stands.
But if it does, then it's a pretty big chunk of data, and a very fast network.
9 years ago
...I'm not sure if it does. Bain's Law still stands.
But if it does, then it's a pretty big chunk of data, and a very fast network.
Couldn't find anything for Bain's Law, do you have a reference I could follow?
I believe it's a reference to this old (but insightful) comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8902739
As such, it is actually "Bane's Rule" which states, "you don't understand a distributed computing problem until you can get it to fit on a single machine first."
(Thanks to nekopa, who also referenced it further down in this thread.)