How much faster can you make a thing by scaling it vertically on hardware? Not that much unless it’s embarrassingly parallel and you use ASICS or gpus. Ok so sc

How much faster can you make a thing by scaling it vertically on hardware? Not that much unless it’s embarrassingly parallel and you use ASICS or gpus. Ok so scale horizontal, but now you’re running a lot of machines and connections etc. it becomes very complicated, so you start introducing abstractions like k8s. To hell with all of it. Scale DOWN, not up or across. Get rid of all the unnecessary bits. Get rid of most IO, memory management, operating systems, abstractions. When people say, “that’s impractical, because …” I guarantee their solution to your concerns is involving more layers of shit. Then sit out your house and drink coffee and seethe, like I do.