The annoying thing about computing is that every damn thing has to be live in an environment of scale. It's like if there were only 2 scales of cooking: cooking a meal for your family at home, and cooking for the entire planet. No intermediate scales of intermediate difficulty.
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Tons of software (most) exists for small niche audiences. They just don’t make the news.
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You still have to do most of the work of getting from 1 to 7 billion in the 1 to say 1000 phase... the higher orders of scaling are mostly handled by infrastructure that's mostly agnostic to code specifics, right?
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I dunno, feels like an empirical research question
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I’ve written systems (still running) for a single department of a large company. Tons of that software exists. It was not designed to, and could not, scale much beyond its current size, but has been running for 9 years.
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Nope. Consider that Twitter was originally written in Ruby and had to be rewritten in Scala to scale artima.com/scalazine/arti
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