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.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.Netflix's web site (not the playout system) was originally a bunch of Python programs.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.