scaling

Who else would someone with a site that can't scale go to but the scaling experts?

Clever code is the enemy of scaling a programming team.

There's no change in frequency scaling or power usage as proposed earlier.

Yes, it doesn't allow scaling to arbitrary factors.

Web developers are learning the basics of scaling.

I've taken the liberty of scaling them to X, where X represents the number for the highest publicly available account plan.

At this point, since I've lost an entire zones worth of servers, I have my auto scaling group fire up on demand instances until I can get some more spot requests fulfilled.

We could not have anticipated that we'd need to migrate to Linux/PC because Sun's prices would make it impractical for us to continue scaling using their hardware.

This sort of trade-off is not worth it for all companies but, for those that dream to do significant scaling and that need to have doors opened to future VC investors, the YC stamp of approval and the YC resources offer value that is not easily found elsewhere.

You didn't realize that this tiny pocket of under-served market, which is of keen and relevant interest to dozens of companies all around you, maybe, just maybe, has huge barriers to entry or scaling, and that every other company already explored it and wrote it off as unprofitable?

No mobile, no Google glasses, no new computer game, no crafty actionable patio11 strategy, no raspberry pi hack, no programming language hack, no excellent presentation, no struggling story of success, no rejection and comeback, no scaling of servers, no clever command lines, no new SSH shell, no browser plugin, no investment philosophy, just "I love my business".75% of their posts are simply not HN-worthy and there isn't a voting ring but there is probably a bunch of social contacts who are up voting this.