I agree with this, I ten to think in orders of magnitude in terms of scaling.
The issue I try to think of is would this scale to one order of magnitude more users than today.
So if I write something for personal use it has to be OK for 10 people. Consequences might be, i use text files not databases, i use command line parameters rather than environmental vars.
I was working on a 20k users system and people kept thinking at the million users level, so everything was over engineered, growth rates of 1000% just don't occur in normal everyday life, yes aspire, but keep it realistic.
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I agree with this, I ten to think in orders of magnitude in terms of scaling.
The issue I try to think of is would this scale to one order of magnitude more users than today.
So if I write something for personal use it has to be OK for 10 people. Consequences might be, i use text files not databases, i use command line parameters rather than environmental vars.
I was working on a 20k users system and people kept thinking at the million users level, so everything was over engineered, growth rates of 1000% just don't occur in normal everyday life, yes aspire, but keep it realistic.