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It depends on the number of users. If say Slack got 10% faster, it'd deliver tremendous productivity increases for customers all around the world. So in theory,
by est31 6y ago
It depends on the number of users. If say Slack got 10% faster, it'd deliver tremendous productivity increases for customers all around the world. So in theory, there is a large incentive here, and Slack can absolutely capture a part of the value they'd be creating from doing such a speedup. But Slack is a product with many users. Speeding up highly specialized products that have maybe 100 users doesn't create as much value.
- txdv 6y agoIf you reach Facebook scale and optimize a flow by 10%, you can basically save thousands of dollars per month making optimizations valuable for the company again. This is one of the aspects where optimizations starts making sense again.
- tonyedgecombe 6y agoThe trouble with Facebook is the obvious optimisation for them is to offload work from their servers to my device. Hence we get bloated clients.
- txdv 6y agoOf course, they will seek to optimize the software they run on their own servers :)