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> Many modern-day applications need to be built at an enterprise scale, sometimes even at an internet scale.

I would argue the contrary: most applications don’t need to be built to scale. Building distributed systems (which is what scaling is about) costs a lot of effort and therefore money. Throwing more hardware at it and traditional optimization are enough for 99% of projects (you do that after a project turns out to be taking off)



Yes, that modern day scaling is generally of aspirations rather than applications!




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