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bigstrat2003

> This is just a repackaged argument against SaaS and cloud infrastructure.

Which, ironically enough, is still a terrible idea for a lot of businesses. But it's trendy, so they go with it.

The crazy thing is how cheap it is to spin up a cloud server, but how little actual processing power you're getting for your money. Even if the business manages to keep their cloud spend in check it's probably going to be at the expense of a terrible user experience because everything in the web app will feel slow and all that matters is individual P95 request latency is within some arbitrary number of seconds.

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