On: Best practices can slow your application down

[amelius]

Would 10x the amount of hardware be a problem for them in any way?

Did they aggressively optimize their setup because of hardware costs?

[habibur → amelius]

they were losing money in the first few years. struggling to find way to monetize it. at one point were selling programming books with amazon affiliation.

these types of cost cuts make the difference between life and death in early stage startups.

[asddubs → habibur]

i believe they still do that