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Comment · 4 years ago
An organization only has so much mental capacity to focus on challenges. Having a required repair-ability goal would hinder the pace of innovation.

It might be worth the hit, but naive to think such an accomplishment is without innovation cost.

Comment · 5 years ago
Buying 1 Mibps means you can use up to 1Mibps. Paying $/GiB means you can use 100s of Gibps for a split second and only pay the $/GiB fee.

In the past i did a TCO comparison for a large spikey workload where the $/GiB cost even at list was cheaper than allocating enough bandwidth for peak events.

At small scale the $/Mibps likely comes out cheaper, but for any large company sitting on 100s of Gibps of excess capacity for an event that occurs once or twice a year, or a few hours per day is very costly and might eat up savings from p99/p95th billing.

Comment · 5 years ago
the market caps of each department spun out is likely greater than the current market cap of Amazon today.

That is assuming the companies would all be as successful being spun out.

Comment · 5 years ago
Might even see negative gain.

Often time the query perf per machine goes down as you move from a single node, indexed, postgresql To a multi node unstructured data.

If you don’t have so much data or unstructured data. Why use the more complex and generally slower per FLOP solution.

Comment · 5 years ago
So does this mean your car can be deprecated?

6 year deal is substantially less than the life of a car.

I can’t say anything great about old android devices. Large numbers left on older versions with security flaws

Comment · 5 years ago

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