Don't scale: 99.999% uptime is for Wal-Mart

iamelgringo · on Dec 1, 2007

Interesting follow up here: http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=067a2e...

Even Big Co.'s like Microsoft and the GOOG have scalability issues.

tx · on Dec 2, 2007

Something needs to be done about this: http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/basecamphq...

Controversial and inflammatory titles surely must bring in some buzz.

hello_moto · on Dec 1, 2007

Don't scale.

Don't need a roadmap.

Don't do UML.

Don't do "X" where "X" is some Software Engineering principle.

Take shortcuts!

Seems to me that these guys don't want to do the painful and boring (but necessary) part of developing software.

pg · on Dec 1, 2007

No; the reason to avoid most of these things is so that you can focus on something way more important: figuring out what the software should do. Exploratory programming is not a mere shortcut.

henning · on Dec 1, 2007

Or for people who use Erlang.

theoneill · on Dec 1, 2007

This is from 2005...

thomasswift · on Dec 1, 2007

.... and DHH wrote out his full name ... and DHH censored himself with a star in the ole f word