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by brokencode
1704 days ago
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The question isn’t whether you have 10k req/s now, but whether you expect to in the future. If you are designing a blog, then yeah, you probably don’t need to worry about it. If you are starting a social network or SAAS business application, then you probably do. |
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A lot of successful businesses start with things that are not scalable, and it is a strength, not a weakness. If you start a social network for instance, you can't beat Facebook at its own game. You have to do something that Facebook can't do because it is too big. Scalability problems will be tackled as you grow.
Among the many things Facebook can't do is running its service on a single database. It makes things much harder on them, thankfully, you are much smaller than Facebook and you can. Take that advantage.