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It's not free, no. And servers aren't free either. At "Google scale" 1% or 2% savings can add up to hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars per year. 1% o
by arp242 2y ago
It's not free, no. And servers aren't free either.
At "Google scale" 1% or 2% savings can add up to hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars per year. 1% of 100,000 servers is 1,000 servers.
- JyrkiAlakuijala 2y agoMy take on this is that junior engineers optimize for the cpu as it is easy to measure, senior engineers for the user experienced latency as it matters more. Users know that their time is valuable. If your website is fast, they will explore it, and came back soon.