Tag: scale

  • Mark Bernstein : It’s easy to add generality to a spec. It makes you look really smart, especially when someone else is going to do the coding. But too much generality too soon makes the code age prematurely; you can get old, brittle, confusing code that looks like it’s yellowed with age, even though it’s…

  • Richard Gabriel is thinking and speaking about Ultra-large Scale, Resilient, Systems. Essential reading.

  • Some good links on Diseconomies of Scale … via comments at Bruce Eckel’s