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Re:Understanding Kafka with Factorio (2019) by vegabook on Thursday July 13, 2023 @02:10PM (#36713610)
If they charge these big numbers more it's precisely because they're trying to capture some of the embarrassingly better value you get from vertical scaling. It's a testament to vertical scaling's effectiveness that they _can_ do so.
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Re:Understanding Kafka with Factorio (2019) by foota on Thursday July 13, 2023 @03:43PM (#36714934)
Sure, but by doing so they consume the effectiveness?
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Re:Understanding Kafka with Factorio (2019) by dekhn on Thursday July 13, 2023 @03:48PM (#36715007)
No, because you pay a fixed cost to get higher performance and then benefit through the whole lifetime of the product (I'm assuming you are purchasing rationally and keep your machines loaded at 75% or better, and your software is not egregiously wasteful).
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