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From a Lyft engineering perspective would rather focus on things like how do I make sense, process, extract the ton of data. How do I focus on customer experien
by python300 8y ago
From a Lyft engineering perspective would rather focus on things like how do I make sense, process, extract the ton of data. How do I focus on customer experience rather than
how do I save money in data-center, how do I keep my data-center stack updated and many more
- halbritt 8y agoMy argument is that spending 10% of their revenue on cloud infra affects their unit economics sufficiently that they'll find it difficult to compete. Perfectly willing to admit I'm wrong if and when that time comes. At this point, that's my theory.
- alfalfasprout 8y agoYou can't just eliminate that 10%. Even if going to fully bare-metal lowers costs it takes a lot of time and manpower to make that transition. When that investment can be made in other areas that have much more impact it really doesn't make sense. Bare metal works when your workload is well-defined and understood. Then you can actually put reasonable estimates for what you need and hire/purchase infra accordingly.
- halbritt 8y agoNo disagreement here. The balance here is tricky. Based on public data, it seems that Netflix has ~$16B in revenue against $300m/yr cloud spend. 2% seems much more reasonable to me. I feel like a drive toward efficiency is a worthwhile endeavor for a startup in terms of establishing a competitive advantage.