> why the obsession with dedicated hardware and so anti vCPU? Because it is the reason an application that appears fast and snappy on your mid-range laptop slo

> why the obsession with dedicated hardware and so anti vCPU? Because it is the reason an application that appears fast and snappy on your mid-range laptop slows down to a crawl when deployed. It’s the difference between a database query taking minutes (and blocking everything else) vs seconds. vCPUs and the lack of persistent direct-attach storage is the reason I personally don’t use the cloud for anything I build.