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Yes it’s cheaper but also it’s a worse experience. It’ll take longer for a user’s crappy android phone to render your page from source than for a beefy cloud se

• nawgz 5y ago
  > It’ll take longer for a user’s crappy android phone to render your page from source than for a beefy cloud server on the edge to do the same. Yes, if you pay more money and integrate into cloud vendor systems, you can get more compute. Besides, the person with a crappy android is irrelevant to monetizing your application anyways, so their user experience is pretty irrelevant surely? I don't really understand the idea to spend money to improve the experience for people unlikely to spend money on your thing. And, again, the "beefy cloud server" experiences load from a shared user pool, so I doubt there's just flawless performance waiting for everyone all the time; if there is, surely you see "loss leader" written all over it.
  • presentation 4y ago
    - depending on use case you don’t need to pay much to get these perf benefits (eg caching snapshots on CDNs) - monetization depends on your business. How about B2B where customers are employees using crappy corporate laptops. Not like the only high value customers are using high end computers. - and besides maybe you have ethics and don’t want to lock out people who don’t have the latest high end gear. - flawless isn’t the point, better is the point