[johnqian]

This is spam-tier content. Almost nothing specific to scaling data intensive applications. You could rename the article to “how to catch the squirrel in your backyard” and it’d be just as relevant.

I wonder if the upvotes were purchased or coordinated. If actual readers upvoted this, I would love to know why.

[aunty_helen]

I would call it linkedin tier content. Makes non-technical people feel like they've learned something new. Like their chair just slid an extra inch towards the dev team.

As for the front page, it only takes a couple (<10) upvotes early on for something to be shoved in front of a critical mass of people.