Ask HN: RailsConf18 keynote DHH, how improvements kept Bascamp from sharding? In the keynote titled FIXME by DHH, he mentions more memory and SDD among other technology improvements as keeping Basecamp from having to shard as they thought they would, but I am curious as to how they arrived at not having to? That is, I wish this point of new technologies solving a problem was elaborated on. I can only speculate as to how at this point and am not satisfied with my own ruminations.. |
I'd add, DHH speaks greatly at a philosophical level to a revolution that he envisions has to take place if we are to beat conquistadors(those who by any means necessary seek their bottom-line alone) and the general miasma of change that is our day as Developers and (increasingly complex)baselines that cause barriers to/of entry because now we need to understand the new XYZ-technology of the month... Underlying this, I think he challenges what it means to have a prestigious company on your resume in light of the effective outcome of a coding academy. He mentions Taleb and Software iatrogenics at a point to discuss how Software specializations creates distance(again found at these very large prestigious institutions) from the product and in so doing creates a vacuum of lack of responsibility and ownership, which creates opportunity for the end-product to be abused. This is some deep stuff that likely will require a second go around.. I build products from the ground up, a true full-stack Engineer for nearly a decade and I live in this tension of comfort in specialization(which tempting but the road I have never traveled, mostly innately) vs. the pursuit of volatility and measured effective utility abstraction.. You can even hire me at this very moment and "arm this rebel", lest I surrender to those dogmatic Conquistadors.. but DHH is having a hiring-freeze at the moment because their product is too good? (I just started to read, may not be accurate, will edit if not)