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Misc.May 19, 2019
AlbertsonsrvUd7211

Scaling is easy

Walmartlabs crams everything into 1 Kafka topic. You can complain about their site, but reality is it works as well as Amazon or whatever else. It doesn't matter how.dumb your architect is, anything will work. Scaling is only a problem if you are blithely incompetent. If you hold the fact that your system is able to scale as a gold standard your standards are low. The vast majority of programmimg time is.spent on cosmetic things about the code and inane business requirements. The actual scaling nowadays is just hitting a button in AWS. And of course you'll talk about Albertsons because there isn't anything hard about scaling. Or about network switches and whatever that are now completely irrelevant in serverless. Face it, modern programming is baby stuff.

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How come Albertsons is always out of my favorite fruit pops in the frozen aisle?

ConocoPhillips 629-$ May 19, 2019

Because all messages, I mean pops, must go through one topic, I mean distribution center.

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toolong May 19, 2019

Mmm it’s perfectly fine to have one topic, as long as you have enough partitions to distribute the load and process each partition consistently? I have managed a pretty sizeable infrastructure with 500 MB/s (megabyte) flowing into one single Kafka topic. But obviously I needed to have multiple partitions and multiple consumer groups.

Google pfjehsusm May 19, 2019

Lol. Sizeable.

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toolong May 19, 2019

Glad to see you’re addressing a point that’s not relevant to the discussion. Even at 500MB/s you need multiple partitions or won’t be able to keep up if you’re doing anything slightly meaningful with the messages.

Facebook ⭕w⭕ May 19, 2019

Lol. Sizeable.

Albertsons rvUd7211 OP May 20, 2019

Reality is, most major websites get 90% of their traffic through an app or embedded os call (eg Android). Google already knows what you are going to search within a second of you typing, by the time you click to search it's already pinged every site you could be looking for and cached the entire result. So with extensive control over the local browser and native apps it gets way easier to scale.

Amazon isibevj65 May 28, 2019

🤦‍♂️

Amazon vfJe25 Jul 15, 2019

Actually Google determines what you should be typing beforehand and injects brain waves through their Android phone RF antenna and gyroscope. That is how they are able to prefetch and scale.

Amazon rxXH40 Aug 21, 2019

True story. I have seen that “brainwave to code” transformation library.

Zillow Group o-/-< May 19, 2019

I’m wearing diapers

Zillow Group o-/-< May 19, 2019

You have very narrow view to see things, please change your diaper first, then get more experience

Albertsons rvUd7211 OP May 19, 2019

Tell me about the scaling challenges at ZILLOW GROUP

Albertsons rvUd7211 OP May 19, 2019

Lame

Nvidia dynosight May 19, 2019

Anyone can scale with PHP and a dial-up connection

Albertsons rvUd7211 OP May 19, 2019

That's literally facebook

Google चाचा चौधरी May 19, 2019

if (scaleLimitReached){ dont(); }

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lSah63 Jun 28, 2020

LimitReached ? Scale() : Dont();

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cousin May 19, 2019

Just click the autoscale button

Amazon isibevj65 May 28, 2019

you also don’t need network switches because you have serverless 🤦‍♂️

Amazon vfJe25 Jul 15, 2019

Actually you have a point. I don't think AWS is solving any problems Albertsons can not. Albertsons deals with real world problems than artificial things like S3 and SQS.

Google 3ue8nedbi Apr 21, 2022

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Me too

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