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Areading314 on Oct 28, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Theory of Software Architecture

Scaling is not the only way to accomplish high-performance. In many cases performance can be achieved with stateful, imperative yet efficiently executed code that economizes on the use of resources on a single node. In many cases, such as for mobile, desktop, or on-prem deployments, this is the only way to "scale" since you do not have the luxury of increasing number of nodes on demand.

tarruda on Oct 28, 2020 | [–]

I think the parent comment is talking about scaling in terms of software size, not performance.

kumarvvr on Oct 28, 2020 | [–]

I meant scaling of software development. As in, how to make sense of large amounts of code.

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