> Herein lies my criticism of Node’s primary stated goal: “to provide an easy way to build scalable network programs”. I fundamentally do not believe that there is an easy way to build scalable anything. What’s happening is that people are confusing easy problems for easy solutions.
Even though I disagree with much of his technical argument, this is an extraordinarily important point that I find myself agreeing with more and more upon rereading. Nothing is scalable out of the box, anything can be fucked up, and there's no silver bullet.
Even though I disagree with much of his technical argument, this is an extraordinarily important point that I find myself agreeing with more and more upon rereading. Nothing is scalable out of the box, anything can be fucked up, and there's no silver bullet.