Between Toothpicks and Steel: Scaling for Real People
summary
Compares a real bridge (George Washington Bridge with 103 million vehicles per year and 105,986 cables and a second deck added in 1959) to minimalist crossings and draws concrete tradeoffs for application design, citing tools like Open Distro for Elasticsearch and Redis, showing when systems were overbuilt or failed, giving numbers on traffic spikes, concrete architecture limits, and practical strategies to build a responsive data layer that stays on budget and actually works.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:12What is Elastic Search
- 6:45George Washington Bridge
- 9:20Software Architects
- 11:33Estimating
- 17:38Fashion Software Engineering
- 21:25Understand the Walls
- 25:46Civil Engineering
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