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[Kristina Anderson]

It's going to be tough to locate me in 2108 when their directory fills 
up but they can try me at the retirement village on Alpha Centauri :)

--Kristina

> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Ajai Khattri <ajai at bitblit.net> 
wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 May 2008, Kristina Anderson wrote:
> >
> >> In the case of this project, there will potentially be several 
hundred
> >> PDFs but no more than that, at least for the foreseeable 
future...there
> >> are about 30 articles or less published per year by this magazine.
> >>
> >> So I think one static directory can work for us.
> >
> > Always plan to make it future-proof as much as you can. If that 
becomes
> > 100 per year, then what?
> >
> Then in the year 2108, she will have to make changes to the code.
> 
> In my experience, this type of future proofing buys you nothing.   I
> have found that tons of other problems arise before overflow issues
> start to be a problem.  I did a similar thing and I just put the files
> in a folder with the id.  Bandwidth and diskspace became a problem
> long before a too many folder problem.  The solution was to move
> everything to Amazon S3.  S3 doesn't have folders and supports and
> unlimited number of objects. It turned out to be a blessing that I
> didn't do something fancy with the folder naming.
> 
> Regards,
> John Campbell
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Kristina D. H. Anderson
Senior Application Developer/Consultant
"Building a Better Tomorrow, One Line of Code at a Time"
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