How to avoid picking the wrong technology just because it's cool
The author's acronym is silly, but it's a real problem. Soylent liked to blither about their "infrastructure", for a product that sells a few times per minute. They could be using CGI scripts on a low-end hosting service and it would work fine.<p>Wikipedia is some MySQL databases with read-only slaves front-ended by Ngnix caches and load balancers.  That seems to get the job done.  Wikipedia is the fifth busiest web site in the world.<p>Netflix's web site (not the playout system) was originally a bunch of Python programs.<p>The article mentions a PostGres query that required a full table scan.  If you're doing many queries that require a full table scan, you're doing something wrong. That's what indices are for.