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by yongjik 2961 days ago
I highly doubt it. Even most of Google doesn't have "google problems". (Having to design things for "google scale" when you have no reason to was a popular gripe while I was there.)

You don't go Google scale because it's cool to. You either do it because you absolutely have to, or you don't because, thankfully, you don't have to.
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daxfohl 2961 days ago
It sure is trendy to think so though!

I'm currently supporting ops of some "eventually consistent, globally distributed" (if you can fathom through the previous engineer's algorithms) built-from-scratch system designed to be resilient in the face of multi-megaX-transactions-per-second, that currently contains all of 8K records.

Whereas stackoverflow.com runs on SQL. Their own hardware at that.

I half wonder if a large chunk of AWS's revenue could be replaced by https://www.amazon.co.uk/electrical-sockets-adhesive-sticker...

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user5994461 2960 days ago
Companies don't go google scale, companies are google scale. It's not a choice, it's a fact they have to deal with.

Pick any large tech company, they have thousands of servers and countless customized software running. That's what is meant by google scale.

They need to manage that and they suck at it most of the time, they don't know what resources they own and they can't figure out what's running or where.

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