A quick aside - I feel most folks on HN can say that they have been, in some way, shape, or form, a part of this journey for the industry. Take pride in being part of a community that has made this a possibility.
Until we measure our services in transactions / kW, things will continue to get more redundant.
Hopefully it'll catch on more, and encourage the use of productive AND efficient approaches.
No? Maybe we could get cost, energy and other efficiencies by aggregating disparate smaller and larger workloads over a system that scales up and down with demand, so every instance is processing X million TPS.
Cool idea. We could label that scalable, because it’s vastly more efficient!