One programmer costs ~ 300 cores. (Bay Area salary with benefits vs. AWS EC2 pricing)
If your code consumes more than 300 cores, you should care about performance. If your code consumes less, you should care about productivity.
Adding cores is easy while adding programmers is hard. Cores scale linearly while programmers don't. So I set the guideline at 1000 cores. Do not make performance-productivity tradeoffs below that.
If your code consumes more than 300 cores, you should care about performance. If your code consumes less, you should care about productivity.
Adding cores is easy while adding programmers is hard. Cores scale linearly while programmers don't. So I set the guideline at 1000 cores. Do not make performance-productivity tradeoffs below that.