How apps scale: 2006 bigger servers, 2016 clusters, 2026 rewrite in Rust
tristanbob · x · 2026-10-10
A viral one-liner maps three eras of scaling: vertical (buy a bigger server) in 2006, horizontal (clusters) in 2016, and 2026's "efficiency scaling" — rewriting in Rust as the new answer to scale.
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