> With optimizations, Uploadcare now needs six times fewer servers to handle its load than before.
This is devil's advocate, but did you guys have concrete need for this optimization? You now need six times fewer servers, but was that a crippling problem, or is it a cool statistic for the future when you get more users?
Does it need to be a crippling problem before you do anything about it?
Even discounting that, the fact that their server bill will now be 6x smaller is justification enough? Even if the cost savings aren't quite that much (suppose they work out to be 50% of previous costs), if I was running a business I would totally be implementing optimisations that allowed me to halve my running costs...
One can make an argument that the CO2 and energy cost for wasted server usage is a decent reason for it! 6x fewer is not a small amount, that's a great result.
This is devil's advocate, but did you guys have concrete need for this optimization? You now need six times fewer servers, but was that a crippling problem, or is it a cool statistic for the future when you get more users?