I’m not even sure what the argument is here. The author appears to be saying that ‘X’ is slow despite a lot of effort has already gone into making it fast, so what remains must be that it is doing irreducible hard work.
I assume he’s using X as a generic placeholder instead of formerly-known-as-Twitter, but the argument applies in either case.
In my experience this is never the case. There’s always ridiculously low hanging fruit. On the ground and rotting, in fact.
I’ll use Jira as an example. Their online version takes a solid minute to open an empty form. A minute! Do you have any idea how much computing power this represents!? I can install Windows Server 2022 into a virtual machine in less time than this! I can read 42GB of data from disk, or download a DVD from the Internet.
Someone working for Atlassian was here making excuses: customers implement many complex customisations, they have security rules, etc, etc…
“The system is doing a lot of hard work” is what he was trying to say.
I tried a new, empty tenant. No data, no customisation of any kind.
Took nearly a minute to show an empty form. That’s not “hard work”, that’s the baseline. It can only get worse from there!
> The author appears to be saying that ‘X’ is slow despite a lot of effort has already gone into making it fast, so what remains must be that it is doing irreducible hard work.
This is the literal opposite of what the author is saying though? The article even closes with him expressing annoyance because people who claim that X is justifiably slow have almost certainly not done enough analysis to say so.
I assume he’s using X as a generic placeholder instead of formerly-known-as-Twitter, but the argument applies in either case.
In my experience this is never the case. There’s always ridiculously low hanging fruit. On the ground and rotting, in fact.
I’ll use Jira as an example. Their online version takes a solid minute to open an empty form. A minute! Do you have any idea how much computing power this represents!? I can install Windows Server 2022 into a virtual machine in less time than this! I can read 42GB of data from disk, or download a DVD from the Internet.
Someone working for Atlassian was here making excuses: customers implement many complex customisations, they have security rules, etc, etc…
“The system is doing a lot of hard work” is what he was trying to say.
I tried a new, empty tenant. No data, no customisation of any kind.
Took nearly a minute to show an empty form. That’s not “hard work”, that’s the baseline. It can only get worse from there!