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"It’s crazy that JS dev is this hardware inefficient..." That's the whole point of cloudy businesses. They can masquerade it under whatever pretense but the en
by FpUser 7y ago
"It’s crazy that JS dev is this hardware inefficient..."
That's the whole point of cloudy businesses. They can masquerade it under whatever pretense but the end result is that they want you to use more and more hardware resources where each abstract hardware unit gets healthy profit margin for infrastructure suppliers.
Skipping cases like Facebook, Google, Netflix scale most of real life businesses can chug along just fine on dedicated servers with the software written in "normal" high performance languages. You would be surprised what $10,000 worth of modern hardware with high performance software can achieve.
- geodel 7y agoYou are right. At one point it was Java's territory for this stuff. But now we have 10x more inefficient systems than Java.
- quaquaqua1 7y agoRapid prototyping will make a lot more money than cost savings on hardware in most cases
- FpUser 7y ago1) Where did you get the idea that rapid prototyping is not possible with high performance languages? 2) You are making an uber-generic claim. Where is substantiation? I'll make another claim of the same nature: with this never ending rapid prototyping along with whatever they sell under Agile/SCRUM/etc methodology the end result is unbelievable mess of patchwork that after a while becomes to impossible to maintain and add new features to. It literally becomes house of cards
- geodel 7y agoI think above poster may be right but in a sense that I do not prefer. E.g. most of these Electron based stuff looks like rapid prototypes and it made billions for companies like Slack etc. Meanwhile as a user I suffer from crappy and slow software and told to upgrade very reasonable hardware otherwise.
- FpUser 7y agoIt is one case when crappy software being pushed on victims as yourself. They fill their pockets and you suffer ;) But when companies produce same stuff for themselves (internal operations) ...
- atomi 7y agoHilarious.
- darksaints 7y agoI do a lot of work with databases and I find it absolutely insane the amount of money you have to spend in the cloud to get the performance equivalent of an 8 core bare metal server with 64 gigs of ram and a couple NVMe hard drives.
- heisenbergs 7y agoabsolutely. from my prior calculations buying hardware yourself pays for itself within 2 1/2 months. the cloud is expensive as hell. you pay dearly for not having to manage your own hardware and scalability...
- andy_ppp 7y agoScalability which you only need because it’s slow as hell...
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