He's not saying that the total dev environment is bigger than the total prod environment. He's saying that this one cluster of dev machines is much bigger than

He's not saying that the total dev environment is bigger than the total prod environment. He's saying that this one cluster of dev machines is much bigger than other clusters of machines (dev or prod). that could be true while simultaneously having many more prod machines than dev machines. The author explains: however there is one cluster that was built significantly larger than the others and hosted around 2,000 development environment workloads. (This was an artifact of the early days of running “smaller clusters, more of them”, when we were trying to figure out the right size of “smaller”.)