[kragen]

That's a good point, but when one laptop can do 102545 transactions per second, overprovisioned capacity is kind of a more reasonable thing to use than back when you needed an Amdahl mainframe to hit 100 transactions per second.

[DenisM]

As compute becomes cheaper your argument becomes more and more true.

But it only works if workloads remain fixed. If workloads grow at similar rates you’re back to the same problem.

[kragen]

Well, it doesn't work for the newly added workloads. But for the most part we instead have the same workloads performed less efficiently.