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by rich_sasha
1322 days ago
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That you can run Twitter with a much smaller crew is probably true, but also kind of irrelevant. Question is, can you make it so overnight. You write stuff totally differently depending on whether it's going to be maintained by just you, or a team of 50 DevOps etc. Yes you could probably run stuff on N servers instead of M where N << M, thus requiring much fewer sysadmin support etc but that requires that you designed things that way from the get go. But how much work is it to realign stuff to run this way? Probably initially more work than just keeping it going as is. It's like, you can't take a ICE car and turn it electric by just cutting out the engine and sticking a battery where the fuel tank was. |
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