[lifeisstillgood]

It feels like its not about scaling - I could design a system that could handle ten or hundred fold traffic increase and just need more servers and config. But at some point I need to change - like I could have a career of the same years experience repeated twenty times. Or I could grow in each year and come out of a decade a different person

It seems that duckduckgo has same code as google just needs more servers - but as each year of experience or each order of magnitude passes it would not be enough to buy more servers - you would need to own fibre networks.

(Don't get me Wrong on "same code as google" - I am always amazed by how many developers it seems to take to do things - google for a company that "just" runs web crawlers and map-reduce seems to have about 10,000 too many staff.

Which I guess puts me in the camp of someone who would have ground google to a halt at 100 staff saying - we don't need to hire more people, just write code to do it instead.

So goin a little off the point there - but there is a metric of growth that is not "the same users repeated a million times" but is a new and different company - and you hit that at ten or a hundred. And if you are a twenty years repeated kind of person you won't grow past that level.

I think I get it.