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Google may be playing the long game. I've seen an effect on my team after moving from physical hardware and centralized capacity provisioning to GCP with immedi
by cheriot 8y ago
Google may be playing the long game. I've seen an effect on my team after moving from physical hardware and centralized capacity provisioning to GCP with immediate gratification hardware. It's easier to spend money so we ask for more stuff more often.
- pdelgallego 8y agoit is The Jevons paradox [1]. I have seen it as well happening when I migrated a client from a standard cloud architecture to a serverless architecture. >>> In economics, the Jevons paradox (sometimes Jevons effect) occurs when technological progress or government policy increases the efficiency with which a resource is used (reducing the amount necessary for any one use), but the rate of consumption of that resource rises due to increasing demand. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox