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Daily Archives: July 27, 2008

Scalability is not your problem…

Jul27

“Scalability is not your problem, getting people to give a shit is.”

From Ted Dziuba via Nat Torkington

Indeed.

Of those two, scalability is by far the easier problem to solve.

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