Only if you extract a ton of value per user or can serve a huge number of users per machine. Otherwise, upping the number of servers by an order of magnitude wi

Only if you extract a ton of value per user or can serve a huge number of users per machine. Otherwise, upping the number of servers by an order of magnitude will start requiring an operations team to maintain. That was a pretty common truism 10 years ago, but machines haven't gotten faster at the same rate lately.