Things that dont really scale
Hi folks, Can you describe some features (without disclosing anything you shouldn’t) from your company out there which feel like they handle customer traffic well but in reality they dont?
Oracle Jhui Oct 7, 2017
Not about scalability property but still relevant to distributed systems/false advertisement : At Microsoft, part of the code we wrote in azure storage and bus (and still in production) uses system.datetime.now to guarantee ordering (we had no clue what logical clock was haha).
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Expedia icare OP Oct 7, 2017
This is a serious post. Kindly avoid trolling
Benefitfocus xNSV78 Oct 8, 2017
Any large company is going to have some horror show spaghetti business going on somewhere in the background.
Single threaded database that runs on a single machine. We make it work by upgrading the machine and hiding the transaction times.
Like whenever things crash or stall, deploy it to a different machine?
No just a bigger machine. Vertical scaling. It doesn't work very well.