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No? Server and cloud resources have almost zero marginal cost at most medium sized and above companies unless you are doing something truly intensive like video
by melony 5y ago
No? Server and cloud resources have almost zero marginal cost at most medium sized and above companies unless you are doing something truly intensive like video encoding. For most web apps, you can go a long way by just scaling horizontally and throwing more ram at the problem.
On the hand, you don't have any control at all for the frontend, especially for consumer products.
- TameAntelope 5y agoAh, spoken like someone who hasn’t actually tried to solve a backend problem by throwing more hardware at it. :) It does not work, and is very expensive, jumping from tier to tier. Your memory leak will just keep leaking, your inefficient query will just keep gobbling up RAM, your unoptimized traversal will still take too long, until you find the actual issue and fix it. Modern web browsers have abstracted all of the resource management problems away from the app developer. The worst you can do is crash the browser, which is a pretty easy problem to avoid.