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Just so I don't misunderstand your point: "Yes, companies without coordinating are collectively spending vast sums of precious resources on a product/service, B
by dcgudeman 6y ago
Just so I don't misunderstand your point: "Yes, companies without coordinating are collectively spending vast sums of precious resources on a product/service, BUT they are all misguided and wasting their money because look at these unrelated events where individuals misplaced their efforts/ money". Is that correct?
- abernard1 6y ago> wasting their money because look at these unrelated events where individuals misplaced their efforts/ money They're not unrelated. They're all related to fat 60-80% profit margins on SaaS. And no coordination is necessary to spend money on silly, make-work activities if you have margins like that. Software has extremely low, borderline zero, variable costs. A lot of these companies that spend money on examples like I've given probably could hire nobody at all and still have crazy growth because of the unit economics. (Not coincidentally, the companies most in want of "Big Data" solutions tend to be past this point.) I can get 1M QPS on a silly Aurora setup with replicas. Best tool for all jobs: no. But don't tell me that dollar-for-dollar a data architecture with like 25 different components is dramatically superior to an OLTP db, OLAP offline store + batch jobs, and a streaming system.