Creating tools to cross machines and networks
summary
Argues that the real claim is that productivity and scalability are not mutually exclusive, demonstrated by experimenting with actor model approaches and Erlang and Akka style supervision and hot upgrades. Describes building concrete prototypes and programming APIs as living specifications, iterating until implementations stay performant and extensible. Notes practical thresholds — something fine at 100 users can fail at 1,000 or 10,000 — and emphasizes supervision, hot-code upgrade and small-scope prototyping as the tools that actually make growth work.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:45Connecting things at multiple levels
- 1:55Prototyping
- 4:00Software delivery
- 5:45Actor style
- 6:20Domain
- 9:10Time Cost Quality Scope
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