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Every time I read one her posts, I think, wow she must either work for literally dirt cheap or her code is expected to run on several thousand machines. Most projects just don't reach the scale or steadystate where developer time is cheaper than machine time. It's fun trying to squeeze the last drop of blood from stone, but it rarely makes economical sense.


To be fair, I believe she spent the guts of a decade at Google and Facebook as a Production Engineer, so this isn't really that surprising.




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