It reminds me of the articles you see from time to time about how someone successfully moved millions of rows of data in the cloud for less than a hundred dolla

It reminds me of the articles you see from time to time about how someone successfully moved millions of rows of data in the cloud for less than a hundred dollars or some such absurdity. It'd be hilarious if it weren't so deeply discouraging and tragic. You might have heard of Eroom's Law, which is Moore's Law backwards. It states that software bloat will soak up all gains from Moore's Law. Well, with cloud we now have a whole industry with an economic incentive to put Eroom's Law into practice, since cloud makes more money the more inefficient things can become. So to do what a simple local app could do in a minute must now be done across five different services with microservice backends, etc.