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Faster hardware is usually cheaper than hiring more developers.
by Retr0spectrum 10y ago
Faster hardware is usually cheaper than hiring more developers.
- vidarh 10y agoThat changes very quickly if you create distributed systems that tend to either have underdimensioned external IO (networks) and/or be excessively expensive. It's not unusual for systems to balloon up to several times the original size the moment you have to cross the boundary to communicating over the network. Even if it's a LAN.
- GrumpyYoungMan 10y ago>Faster hardware is usually cheaper than hiring more developers. Now that Moore's law is running out of steam, we can reasonably expect that to become false within the next decade or so. The division between those who can merely write code and those who can properly engineer software systems will become all too apparent then.