btilly on HN: "Whatever scale you hit on a single machine, you can probably gain 1-2 orders of magnitude of performance by sw...

btilly on HN: "Whatever scale you hit on a single machine, you can probably gain 1-2 orders of magnitude of performance by switching to a faster language and carefully optimizing. If you switch to distributed, you'll LOSE at least an order of magnitude performance due to the overhead of RPCs, but are able to scale indefinitely afterwards."