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		zhouzhao 61 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Do the simplest thing that could possibly work Oh boy, this is the best example of "I have been doing it the same way for 30 years" I have ever seen in the world wild web

fijiaarone 61 days ago [–]

Google and Amazon were doing things at roughly the same scale* 20 years ago on slower hardware and less of it.

* They might be serving twice as much (but definitely not ten times as much) as they were in 2005 but mostly that scales horizontally very easily.

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