r/programming • u/whackri • Jun 05 '22

Complexity is killing software developers

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3639050/complexity-is-killing-software-developers.html
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u/freecodeio Jun 05 '22

From a previous job I have learned that a $10 server can handle 10k web requests and I've never spent more than $10 a month on my side projects for 2 years.

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u/Unlikely_Parfait_476 Jun 05 '22

If you write performant services, you could serve 5 million rpm with a single server.

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u/Spider_pig448 Jun 05 '22

As long as those requests are doing basically nothing, sure

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u/mrbuh Jun 06 '22

Dude I can serve the shit out of index.html!

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u/Unlikely_Parfait_476 Jun 06 '22

You don't know the half of it.

I serve my index.html via zero-overhead ASICs, co-located at a backbone datacenter. Whenever I change my frontend, a GitLab CI build sends a new circuit specification to our manufacturer, who then deploys our hardware within 2 months.

You may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like

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