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by fehguy
5198 days ago
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And when you need another data center, you shell out major coin. That's what we needed to avoid. At some point, even your finest physical server has limits. If you can split the work up into smaller pieces that execute in "parallel" fashion, you have a more scalable architecture. This holds true in VMs as well as physical servers. Think map reduce, twitter blender, or nearly any parallel system. Rope is strong because it has many threads. |
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Rope made out of wet tissue paper is not strong. Rope made out of threaded rebar is very strong.
You are presenting a somewhat absurd dichotomy -- that having good servers precludes parallel operations or scalability. I thought we had discarded that sort of silly foundation a few years ago.