At any given time, there are a. turnkey tasks, b. relatively easy tasks, c. hard tasks you can do w/ your resources, d. tasks you cannot 1/
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Example: distributed databases used to be impossible, now they're hard, and moving toward easy 8/
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So if you were trying to decide how to build a product, you should weigh the cost in the tradeoff lower and lower over time 9/
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However, the scale changes relatively slowly. If something was impossible for you yesterday, it probably is today too 10/
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So it's reasonable to form point-in-time "ideological shortcuts" about the relative costs of various technologies and patterns 11/
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However, with some effort, a team can usually move the needle, and there is usually someone working on doing just that 12/
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@wycats Maybe blog?
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