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by sacheendra 2991 days ago
The cost is negligible for 1 server.

For 100s to 1000s of servers. The cost starts mattering.

I'm not saying new applications shouldn't be built on lisp. Most applications don't have huge scaling requirements. But, if you expect the application to grow, have a plan in place for migration.
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coldtea 2991 days ago
>For 100s to 1000s of servers. The cost starts mattering.

If you need 100s to 1000s of servers you presumably already have customers and money to spend.

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jimbokun 2990 days ago
To spend on rewriting the application in another language.
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coldtea 2990 days ago
AKA a "nice problem to have" ("oh, we're now so successful we have to rewrite the app in another language to lower our infrastructure costs".

Most of the time you aren't gonna need it (because you wont go far anyway as a company). And when you do -- like Twitter and Facebook did, you'll be swimming in users and money already anyway...

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