introducing a new term when an established term exists seem to add another overhead. "but bro, you'll get used to it in no time." i hear you, buddy. it just leaves a bit bad taste.
anyway, i can't believe i say this, i think dhh's words on tradeoff between squeezing performance out of an ecosystem and "just throw more hardware on it" is a tradeoff that i can clearly choose.
Every little speed bump that's thrown in your way has a real cost.
When those speed bumps are on the main path that you travel every single day, all those little sources of friction add up to a lot of drag. As an industry we've collectively established this nomenclature over the last 2-20+ years, and throwing it away so you can keep the cute rocket analogy reflects some really bad decisions being made.
Hey, at least everything isn't randomly named after Lord of the Rings characters though.
anyway, i can't believe i say this, i think dhh's words on tradeoff between squeezing performance out of an ecosystem and "just throw more hardware on it" is a tradeoff that i can clearly choose.