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by steveklabnik 930 days ago
Here's a fun answer to that question: Rubygems saved infinity money. That is, they got resource usage down to the point where they could move to the free tier.

* https://andre.arko.net/2018/10/25/parsing-logs-230x-faster-w...

* https://andre.arko.net/2019/01/11/parsing-logs-faster-with-r...

(obviously most people will not realize infinity money)