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> I found it surprising that changing the cost of delivering a movie could so dramatically shift company-wide priorities. I mean, not to yell at clouds, but th
by npsimons 3y ago
> I found it surprising that changing the cost of delivering a movie could so dramatically shift company-wide priorities.
I mean, not to yell at clouds, but this is kind of how technology and our use of it progresses - things get faster/cheaper, and pretty soon you don't have to give a shit about pushing to EAX but instead just mapreduce across your cluster.
We're inherently lazy.
- hoosieree 3y agoSure, but I tend to think of a cost reduction leading to doing more of your core business. I would not expect it to change the essence of how interact with your customers. Maybe I should not be so surprised. If some core service used in software becomes 1000x cheaper, it does tend to produce not just shifts in quantity but shifts in the kind of thing you do with it. For instance, if a language's garbage collector goes from annoyingly slow to basically invisible, it wouldn't be surprising for the preferred paradigm to change.
- npsimons 3y ago> For instance, if a language's garbage collector goes from annoyingly slow to basically invisible, it wouldn't be surprising for the preferred paradigm to change. Funny you give that as an example - I recall attending a talk round the turn of the century about using Java in real-time systems, and a big stickler at the time was the GC. I haven't kept up with Java (or real-time systems), but given the inroads the JDK VM has made in the embedded space, I wouldn't be surprised at all if something changed enough to make the GC not an issue for (some) real-time systems any more.