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Discussion (4 Comments)Read Original on HackerNews

exabrial•about 2 hours ago
"Pretending you are Google" Needs to be on there.

Scalability is not a problem: you have, you will have, you should plan for, you should build for, nor allow anyone to utter the S word. Simplicity is the correct word to use.

anthonj•22 minutes ago
The ridiculous things I was asked to do, and observed other people doing, all because "one day we will gave thousands of clients" while at the same time struggling to push out just a few units.
exabrial•about 2 hours ago
This falls into a broader category of disillusionment: "Pretend problems are the funnnest ones to solve", meaning, when the problem doesn't actually exist, any solution can be leveraged as the "right" one because there is no real world backpressure to test if it's effective.

Software Devs love solving pretend problems, and the state of modern web development reflects this.

Gibbon1•about 1 hour ago
Up the Organization by Robert Townsend had this gem, not the exact quote but: big companies didn't get big by acting like big companies.