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A agree somewhat, but I've seen 10 box systems that could run on raspberry pie with good code
by rosspanda 12y ago
A agree somewhat, but I've seen 10 box systems that could run on raspberry pie with good code
- lmm 12y agoI've seen them. I've worked on them. But again, where's the cost/benefit?
- nirvdrum 12y agoI'm hardly what most environmentalists would call an "environmentalist", but one cost here is the increase in carbon footprint. Of course, to the company the cost/benefit analysis errs on the side of just spinning up more boxes. But from a larger perspective, taking some extra time to make more efficient use of machines could have a drastic impact. Many optimizations don't require months to implement. Many of those are even avoidable with a bit of foresight.
- pothibo 12y agoI wasn't advocating for badly written code to run on a whole datacenter. I was just pointing the alternative with the assumption that the code was somewhat healthy and adding one new instance to cover the sub-optimization wasn't a big deal. Of course, if you have 10k users and it runs on 3 machines, you got a problem which no amount of boxes can solve.