IIRC, when the cloud services were taking over the argument was that it’s much cheaper to pay for the AWS than paying engineers to handle the servers. This was also a popular argument for running an unoptimized code(i.e. it’s much cheaper to run two servers instead of making your code twice as fast).
Since the industry has matured now, there must be a lot of opportunity to optimize code and run it on bare metal to make systems dramatically faster and dramatically cheaper.
If you think about it, the algorithms that we run to deliver products are actually not that complicated and most of the code is about accommodating developers with layers upon layers of abstraction.
Since the industry has matured now, there must be a lot of opportunity to optimize code and run it on bare metal to make systems dramatically faster and dramatically cheaper.
If you think about it, the algorithms that we run to deliver products are actually not that complicated and most of the code is about accommodating developers with layers upon layers of abstraction.