[lifeisstillgood]

>>> As a concrete example: a single Salesforce server supports thousands or millions of users, since each user generates a handful of requests per second. A single Segment container, on the other hand, has to process thousands of messages per second–all of which may come from a single customer.

This sounds like the basic problem with Big Data and selling advertising as a business model ... that eventually even bits aren't free.

I can see how it happens - but I think any business that has as its core ship everything to our servers in San Francisco is just badly architected - and if that's your business model you have a bad business model.

no particular comment on segment but a general thought - perhaps most of the business models today are not very good ones

(I seems to remember a rap lyric start up that spun up a new single threaded Ruby on Raiks instance for the most trivial request increases)