Comment by Etheryte
8 hours ago
When people spend their entire careers in AWS land, it's easy to forget just how much power a single beefy bare metal server brings to bear. You can scale far and wide simply by getting a bigger server.
8 hours ago
When people spend their entire careers in AWS land, it's easy to forget just how much power a single beefy bare metal server brings to bear. You can scale far and wide simply by getting a bigger server.
True. But “big beef” is complicated and difficult to make reliable. Horizontal scaling of unreliable servers is dirt simple to stay up through almost anything except sudden load spikes. And then it’s largely a matter of configuring your auto scaling and retries.
That said big beef is so simple to start with. And this story is a strong example that YAGNI is a practical reality for almost everybody wrt “distributed everything”.