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Next you’re going to tell us that our computer equipped with a 3 GHz processor and 100Mbps connection should allow us to reduce that download by, say, a second

• jiggawatts 4y ago
  That tone is giving me flashbacks to a related meeting where I was trying — very patiently and diplomatically — to explain that a cluster of six large cloud VMs should be able to put out tens of gigabits of static content to the Internet, not tens of megabits. I was nearly laughed out of the room because apparently Deloitte — a much more expensive consultancy — had told them that what they really needed was to dynamically scale out further. “The cloud will scale to the size of your wallet if you let it.” was my response, which… did not go down well. I didn’t hear back after that. Years later they’re still scaling up and working on migrating to a more cost-effective hosting provider.
  • tomcam 4y ago
    That line was magnificent