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by Dylan16807 1747 days ago
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.

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

Or better code/a better engineering organization

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