Each move along that spectrum drastically alters the economics of using a tool or pattern 2/
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Going from easy to turnkey allows people to use it even if they don't understand the problem 3/
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Going from hard to easy lets people use it even if they don't have much time 4/
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Going from impossible to possible does the obvious: lets early adopters use it at all and help you grow it 5/
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"Possible" is also contextual; it's relative to the surrounding ecosystem, available time/resources, and team skills 6/
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If you're trying to decide how to build something, this scale is a hard constraint for the decision 7/
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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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