Engineers love to talk about scalability.  It makes us feel like the bad ass, dick-swingin’ motherfuckers that we wish we could be.

After we talk about scalability with our co-workers (Yeah, Rails doesn’t scale!), we flex our true engineering prowess by writing a post about it on our blog.  Once that post hits Reddit, son, everyone will know how hardcore you really are.  Respect.

People Who Talk Big About Scalability Don’t Need To Worry About It

Fact:  every chest-thumping blog post I have seen written about scalability is either about architecture, Memcached, or both.  Some asshole who writes shitty code starts pontificating about “scalable architecture” with data storage, web frontends, whatever-the-fuck.  Dude, your app isn’t having scalability problems because of the architecture.  It’s having scalability proble