Comment by ackfoobar Comment by ackfoobar 2 days ago 2 replies Copy Link View on Hacker News I guess for pure python applications, they'd rather throw more hardware at the problem than messing with the JVM.
Copy Link kaba0 2 days ago Collapse Comment - For serial workloads it’s very very hard to scale by hardware, though. CPUs aren’t getting 2x faster as they used to.Also, what is “messing with the JVM”? That’s like one of the most battle tested technologies out there, right next to the Linux kernel. Reply View | 1 reply Copy Link ackfoobar 2 days ago Parent Collapse Comment - Don't get me wrong, I love the JVM.The unfortunately common irrational aversion to JVM aside, there's also the fear of "using it wrong". Reply View | 0 replies
Copy Link ackfoobar 2 days ago Parent Collapse Comment - Don't get me wrong, I love the JVM.The unfortunately common irrational aversion to JVM aside, there's also the fear of "using it wrong". Reply View | 0 replies
For serial workloads it’s very very hard to scale by hardware, though. CPUs aren’t getting 2x faster as they used to.
Also, what is “messing with the JVM”? That’s like one of the most battle tested technologies out there, right next to the Linux kernel.