Josh CollinsworthApr 16, 2024

I think we're focused on the wrong thing when we look at what tech works for a company like Amazon or Facebook or Netflix.

We should be looking at what tech works when you *don't* have a small army of staff engineers optimizing it. I want to know what I can scale *without* paying someone a half million dollar salary to do it.

There should be more case studies on things that don't have a billion-dollar company propping them up, humming along quietly on a cheap-ass VPS somewhere.

Show threadm_eiman
@collinsworth @bjoreman I’d say we need to redefine ”scale” to mean a relevant number of users - nobody has a billion users, few have millions of users, most have thousands of users on a good day.
Apr 16, 2024 at 6:41amWeb
Show threadHoward Chu @ SymasApr 16, 2024
@mikaeleiman @collinsworth @bjoreman telcos in Asia have more than a billion users. They use #OpenLDAP...