[talolard]

I think your last paragraph is the sales pitch for AWS. Hiring that level of expertise doesn’t scale. Easier and cheaper to hire 10x as many “developers” and pay the AWS bill than headhunt performance gurus that understand hardware and retain them .

[FpUser]

What expertise? My specialty is new product design. I am very far from being performance hardware guru. I just understand basics and do not swallow propaganda by loads.

[Dylan16807]

Even if you're right, it's still cheaper to get a dozen dedicated servers than to get a huge pile of AWS servers.

Bad performance means you need more servers, it doesn't mean you need instant scaling.

[arthurcolle]

> Bad performance means you need more servers, it doesn't mean you need instant scaling.

Or better code/a better engineering organization

[Dylan16807]

Oh sure but that's been declared too expensive in this scenario.