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Re:Pydis – Redis clone in 250 lines of Python, for performan... by secondcoming on Sunday November 15, 2020 @08:16AM (#25100933)
If it was pointed out to their higher-ups that their infrastructure costs could be reduced by a sizable amount by changing language they might not be so fine with it.
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Re:Pydis – Redis clone in 250 lines of Python, for performan... by coldtea on Monday November 16, 2020 @12:28AM (#25108382)
The last thing most higher-ups care about are infrastructure costs and optimizations.

And in many cases you're the higher up, and startup founders take decisions to use slower but more flexible technologies every day...

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