-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey there, LOPSA hivemind! Greets from Sunny Brussels.
I routinely bump into people trying to cook a web startup. Fairly typical is one guy with an idea and a bit of technical ability trying to get a product to market without much capital expenditure. I find myself having this conversation repeatedly where someone doesn't have customer one *yet* but they're trying to already think about scaling to $really_large_number. I think, really, there is some low-hanging fruit for such cases. Premature optimization is the root of all evil, true, but on the other hand one can also make early architectural choices that impose otherwise avoidable scalability limits. Why am I writing? Two things: 0) Does a sort of ten commandments, dos and don'ts of scalability for tech startups exist? (I don't want to reinvent the wheel.) 1) Given the above, wouldn't this be a valuable addition to the LOPSA site? (Rather like the old tools database, which sadly seems to have disappeared.) If we put our brains together and thrash out a useful 'ten commandments of scalability' page we could post/upvote it on HN and thereby garner some nice publicity for LOPSA. Cheers, - --Trey P.S. Speaking of which, lopsa.org seems rather unresponsive. Is it just me? Perhaps this ought to be addressed before (hypothetically) driving a bunch of HN traffic to the site. :-/ ++----------------------------------------------------------------------------++ Trey Darley - Brussels mobile: +32/494.766.080 twitter: @treyka ++----------------------------------------------------------------------------++ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? ++----------------------------------------------------------------------------++ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk6usBYACgkQQXaSM49tivCk6QCfSJQHnzLDeqJFqTRlcJ5iFdx1 QrAAmwb0q5EQ2jHy9EQb3McDBgryuZea =3RUW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
