Comment by strken
19 hours ago
Of course you should be fired for doing that! I meant the example as an illustration of how "you don't need to scale" thinking turns into A-grade bullshit.
You do, in fact, need to scale to trivial numbers of users. You may even need to scale to a small number of users in the near future.
I'm not seeing how your example proves that a beefy server/cloud free architecture cannot handle the workload that most companies will encounter. The example you give of an under specified VPS is not what is being discussed in the article.
I was responding to CaptainOfColt, who was writing about premature optimisation killing companies. The article's proposed architecture seems fine and is similar to things I've done, but it's not an excuse to completely avoid thinking about future traffic patterns.