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This matters if you are Google, serving gigabytes of data per user for free. This matters less for sites whose compute budget is 10% of their human budget, wher
by Evbn 14y ago
This matters if you are Google, serving gigabytes of data per user for free. This matters less for sites whose compute budget is 10% of their human budget, where trying to cut from 2x to 1x on compute isn't worth the human cost.
- justincormack 14y agoI imagine Google's staff budget is hugely higher than their compute budget. But when budgets get big you want to cut them anyway ...
- lmm 14y agoPoor logic on their part if so. Slowing your programmers down 2% to cut 10% off your hardware costs is usually a bad idea, and that's still true as your budgets for both grow, as long as the ratio stays the same. (I don't think Google are stupid, I think their ratio probably has shifted to the point where their hardware budget is comparable to their salary budget. Which makes them a very unusual case)