These optimizations are impressive, but it gets me thinking: at what point does a company become a collection of impenetrable siloes, where nothing really does what you expect? Maybe know with AI this is less of an issue as exploring a codebase is also much faster.
And at what point does a company start to care about performance? 100TB of RAM is expensive as hell, but getting products to market faster was worth the cost
Cloudflare is unusual in that their product is performance and their costs are primarily hardware and networking. You see similar performance initiatives from companies like AWS who also need to maximise their hardware usage.
Whereas for somewhere like Burger King, the costs are all rent and staff, so they wouldn’t care how much RAM their website uses. But you would see similar optimisation in their supply chains for their ingredients, and their rotas to reduce staffing.
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Whereas for somewhere like Burger King, the costs are all rent and staff, so they wouldn’t care how much RAM their website uses. But you would see similar optimisation in their supply chains for their ingredients, and their rotas to reduce staffing.
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