Remember the little discussion (here and here) about Papadopoulos' (Sun's CTO) Redshift Computing a month or so back? Seems that Redshift was slashdotted today, and the comment stream is pretty entertaining. It's generally fairly, mmm... well let's just say difficult, but some of them bordered on the genuinely funny. Here's a sampling ...
Exponential growth for a business isn't even possible ...
It must be true ...
Don't be harsh ...
And this one takes exception to most of Redshift Computing, including what will enable these applications to actually scale ...
... however well that scales is mostly dependent ...
Setting aside the need to laugh a bit every day (a most agreeable habit), this one is finally onto something. It's not the infrastructure itself that matters, it's the ability of the application to scale. While this commentator attributes that ability to the talents of a small team (and in some sense that is, of course, entirely true), our contention is that there is a better way ... simply ensure the ability to scale at the architectural level, no muss no fuss.
That way your small (or large) team can focus on what they can do best ... creating the actual value of the application itself!
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