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Re:A million-dollar engineering problem by whalesalad on Thursday March 16, 2017 @07:03PM (#13889946)
The problem is not AWS. The problem is poorly architected systems and software. We see a similar issue with the "we switched from PHP to Haskell on .NET in Azure and improved performance 3000x" -- the issue wasn't the fault of the language, it was the way it was used.

You put bald tires that are over-inflated on a Porsche and you're gonna have a shitty experience. Sure, bare-metal is gonna have performance benefits over AWS and at times might be cheaper -- but that isn't the only thing an eng organization is looking for.

tl;dr – you can build systems on AWS that perform well and are reasonably priced.

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Re:A million-dollar engineering problem by ars on Friday March 17, 2017 @02:43AM (#13892045)
> You put bald tires that are over-inflated on a Porsche and you're gonna have a shitty experience.

This is off topic, but bald tires have better traction than grooved ones in dry conditions. (But the slightest bit of rain and they will not hold.)

Also tire inflation does not have a strong correlation with traction (there is some, but it's not large), so it's not so obvious that over-inflated means a bad experience.

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Re:A million-dollar engineering problem by SudhindraBhat on Friday March 17, 2017 @07:25AM (#13893110)
Bald tires also mean that the tire compound has degraded. So it is going to have worse traction. Slick tires on the other hand are new without any grooves.
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