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rhizome
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4 million songs on Spotify have never been played....
That's because scaling is not in the domain of developers, as much as Heroku/AWS/etc. strive to blur the lines. It's in system administration and architecture.
mratzloff
on Jan 30, 2014
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It's a collaborative process between all three. There are a thousand different ways developers can prevent (and conversely, enable) scalability.
rhizome
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My point is that they are separate skills.
mratzloff
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Only in the sense that making your software secure is a separate skill.
rhizome
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That's an extremely reductive argument.
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