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Isn't there a saying along the lines of "infrastructure is cheaper than developers?" I've mostly seen it in a cloud computing context, meaning it's cheaper to
by joncrane 5y ago
Isn't there a saying along the lines of "infrastructure is cheaper than developers?"
I've mostly seen it in a cloud computing context, meaning it's cheaper to pay for more/larger servers than it is to pay developers to make their code more efficient. But it also makes sense on a more basic hardware level.
- judge2020 5y agoI don't know the saying, but it makes sense - it might take 10 years of Azure runway over a few years to pay developers to remake something made in ASP.NET into a static binary that can handle 10x the number of requests on the same processors. But at that point, businesses aren't going to spend time making it faster if they can pay more to have a faster development cycle and get cheaper talent in the long run.