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I work in a tech company which is a bit bigger than cloudflare and anything less than 6 figures/yr opex reduction is a rounding error. It is pretty regular to s
by __turbobrew__ 2y ago
I work in a tech company which is a bit bigger than cloudflare and anything less than 6 figures/yr opex reduction is a rounding error.
It is pretty regular to save the company 7 figures per year when opex is in the billions.
It is about the opportunity cost, nobody is going to disagree that small optimizations are a net positive but what else could you have done with your time? Maybe cloudflare is at the point of maturity where there are no easy wins and only 1% gains left but I kind of doubt it given their reliability track record. How many dollars do they lose for every hour they are down? Probably more than $20k.