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> Faster code is an irrelevant distraction 90% of the time. Time is money. Say a piece of code is executed zillions of times by hundreds of millions of custome
by Maursault 4y ago
> Faster code is an irrelevant distraction 90% of the time.
Time is money. Say a piece of code is executed zillions of times by hundreds of millions of customers. What would seem like a negligible increase in results, even a few milliseconds, adds up at scale. Sparing resources translates to saving money, both in energy expenditure and in squeezing in as many transactions in a minute as possible.
- drc500free 4y agoMost code is not executed a zillion times by hundreds of millions of customers. Most products are not concerned with squeezing in as many transactions in a minute as possible. All of those have their time and place. B2C codepaths used by all normal users in their most common daily usage? sure. HFT platform? sure. Pretty much anything else? You're probably spending more in dev salary than AWS savings and getting sniped by a competitor.
- Maursault 4y ago> You're probably spending more in dev salary than AWS savings and getting sniped by a competitor. I don't doubt you, but it is asinine if dev salaries are under such oppressive scrutiny when mind-boggling amounts of spending is wasted on management and especially executive salaries. Talk about bending over a dollar to pick up a dime.