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Compute is cheap. People are expensive.
by qeternity 10y ago
Compute is cheap. People are expensive.
- dominotw 10y ago> Compute is cheap. Not on AWS.
- exhilaration 10y agoWord on Hacker News is that Netflix is one of AWS' premiere showcase customers and gets discounts that we couldn't dream of.
- djb_hackernews 10y agoIf you have dynamic workloads, need to be HA, scalable and multi region, AWS is worth every cent. If you are running a webapp and a database with a known workload, not so much.
- 1_2__3 10y agoThe refrain of shitty developers everywhere.
- randomthoughtss 10y agoSeems fine for server-side development. For client-side, please don't kill my battery.
- radicalbyte 10y agoPerformance has never mattered. That's why Internet Explorer's map access implementation was exponential instead of logarithmic (to the size of the map). That one piece of lazy coding held back Javascript on their platform for years, and I'd argue that it as the most significant cause of their browser's market share plummeting (or at last tied with lack of adblockers).