Of course users care about page load time - scalability should be built in to an application from day one (I never said otherwise). Modern Paas services allow for this more or less out of the box so there's no excuse not to have scalability built in.
I've built apps that scale well (over 100 concurrent users) but have still never had to worry about whether to use a linked list or a hash table.
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You're missing the point.
Of course users care about page load time - scalability should be built in to an application from day one (I never said otherwise). Modern Paas services allow for this more or less out of the box so there's no excuse not to have scalability built in.
I've built apps that scale well (over 100 concurrent users) but have still never had to worry about whether to use a linked list or a hash table.