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> Sometimes, hardware is cheaper than human coordination.

A t3.small on AWS costs $182.21 a year before any discounts and has 2 CPUs and 2 GB of RAM.

So the computer to run the example at the start costs 3 hours of Engineering time.

This has... Warping effects on how hardware performance is perceived to put it mildly.

If you spend 4 hours halving that cost it takes multiple years to reclaim that investment.

Not that performance doesn't matter of course, reducing your total spend by a percentage is worthwhile, but micro optimizations become difficult when hardware is cheap and performant.