The easy way to solve a performance problem in technology seems to be to just get a bigger, better, faster computer. That’s what I told my mom when her Chromebook died. She hated that thing, so it was probably for the best. It’s also what everyone seems to do when their cloud service isn’t running fast enough. Get a bigger server, pay for a larger instance, etc. I get it, it’s simple and low effort, but it’s also expensive. Compute cost doesn’t scale linearly
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it scales exponentially, so instead of buying a super computer you could buy tons of average servers. The solution is much cheaper when parallelization can be used to solve large computing problems.
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