DHH

montoya:

Leave it to Mr. Rails to tell us that it’s better to buy more hardware than optimize your architecture.

Is there a source of this complaint? Last I heard Merb was getting merged into Rails 3, along with many/most of the performance enhancements that make Merb so great. Not to mention the hundreds of tiny speed improvements that have been added to Rails recently.

Assuming that DHH did recently say something along these lines, I’ll agree 110%. Hardware gets exponentially cheaper (or more powerful, whichever way you want to look at it) all the time. Programmer time (spent optimizing your app or optimizing your architecture) does not. This isn’t saying there isn’t a time for optimization—there most certainly is—just saying that it’s probably further off than you think.

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    Let’s just bring the conversation full-circle. DHH has to be the first person to tout scaling vertically over...
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    here for the Kool-Aid, but I wanted to point out the contest where I read his lines: if I remember correctly the point...
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    if not based on well written code and many more tricks designed by coders, engineers and so on, google would require...
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    The argument isn’t...clear-cut, though, because both sides
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    I’m guessing that Christian was referring to this SvN post. He’s not the only one to respond to it negatively. Like a...
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    Is there a source of this complaint? Last I heard Merb was getting merged into...3, along...
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