One of the most insane things I hear repeated constantly is that "servers are cheaper than programmers", implying that runtime efficiency doesn't matter, only d

One of the most insane things I hear repeated constantly is that "servers are cheaper than programmers", implying that runtime efficiency doesn't matter, only developer efficiency. Which is all well and good, until you need to hire all the network engineers, systems administrators, devops people, security staff, datacenter operations managers, database sharding engineers, etc to manage the 10x more hardware and network surface area you have to throw at your slow codebase.