The notion that cpu cores are cheap compared to engineer salaries only scales so far. Scaling upwards, your opinion on that changes when a single engineer’s se

The notion that cpu cores are cheap compared to engineer salaries only scales so far. Scaling upwards, your opinion on that changes when a single engineer’s service is running on 10k machines. At the other end of the spectrum, if you’re developing high-performance applications for small systems (desktop, laptops, mobile), Your workload isn’t going to look like tens of thousands of concurrent independent requests, So the approach of getting parallelism by deploying multiple copies of the application no longer works