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Why scale up when you can optimise? I'm probably going to be downvoted for this, but imo this is really the mindset that leads to bloated software.



Agreed.

This is the implicit assertion that developer time is more expensive than hardware costs.

Seems true in the short term, until the whole system crumbles.




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