Re:Jevons Paradox
by pixl97 on Friday November 03, 2023 @12:51PM
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I see this happen with cloud services all the time...
Customer has on prem services that they do X operations with, we'll say 10,000 daily as an example. They look at the metrics and moving to cloud for that many operations would be cheaper. But very soon after moving to the cloud and an expandable infrastructure, operational costs explode. Suddenly they are not doing this 10k times a day, they are doing it 20 or 30k times a day. Whereas before before kicking off whatever job they were doing they were careful to ensure it was important and cleaning up mistakes in scripts doing while 1=1 loops because it had a measurable impact, after the backpressure disappeared, they'd do this operation without thinking about the costs.
Customer has on prem services that they do X operations with, we'll say 10,000 daily as an example. They look at the metrics and moving to cloud for that many operations would be cheaper. But very soon after moving to the cloud and an expandable infrastructure, operational costs explode. Suddenly they are not doing this 10k times a day, they are doing it 20 or 30k times a day. Whereas before before kicking off whatever job they were doing they were careful to ensure it was important and cleaning up mistakes in scripts doing while 1=1 loops because it had a measurable impact, after the backpressure disappeared, they'd do this operation without thinking about the costs.