On: Everyone is still terrible at creating software at scale

[rakoo]

Pick the most expensive servers/databases/storage and increase the number of users. Every 1-2 changes in orders of magnitude of the latter will require you to think thoroughly about how to best use resources and not explode your budget.

Also read from the highscalability blog, there's a lot of experience recorded there. See for example this transcript of an AWS presentation about a step-by-step guide to scaling: http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/1/11/a-beginners-guide-.... Of course it's done with AWS bricks but the ideas are universal

[_k1yh → rakoo]

Wow this is a great resource.

I found so many parallels in what I've done while scaling up. Only thing I did differently was starting with MongoDB and changing to SQL later; huh.

[adithyasrin → rakoo]

Thanks, wasn't aware of the blog. Will take a look.