John Campbell wrote:
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Ajai Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 28 May 2008, Kristina Anderson wrote:
In the case of this project, there will potentially be several hundred
PDFs but no more than that, at least for the foreseeable future...there
are about 30 articles or less published per year by this magazine.
So I think one static directory can work for us.
Always plan to make it future-proof as much as you can. If that becomes
100 per year, then what?
Then in the year 2108, she will have to make changes to the code.
In my experience, this type of future proofing buys you nothing. I
have found that tons of other problems arise before overflow issues
start to be a problem.
I will go further and say it is worse than nothing. You end up with
code you need to test against a case that receives no real-world
pressure. Then when you have to make real changes in response to actual
(as opposed to hypothetical) needs you have tip-toe around this code and
avoid breaking it -- even though it is not necessary!
I eventually wrote in my little book: Do not abstract against
non-existent cases.
I did a similar thing and I just put the files
in a folder with the id. Bandwidth and diskspace became a problem
long before a too many folder problem. The solution was to move
everything to Amazon S3. S3 doesn't have folders and supports and
unlimited number of objects. It turned out to be a blessing that I
didn't do something fancy with the folder naming.
Regards,
John Campbell
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