Comment by chronc2739
14 hours ago
> how leadership at the same company can simultaneously believe all of "network egress is a staggeringly expensive component of data center rollout" yet "we should stream real-time input and video instead of shipping client software"
The leadership doesn’t believe egress is expensive.
And neither do the customers believe it.
However the customers are okay paying the egress price. So it stays, regardless of what leadership or customers say.
Are you suggesting that low latency video isn't expensive? That goes against everything I've ever heard from people at streaming platforms. The costs are high enough to be a major competitive moat for some of the biggest companies on the planet (e.g. Google's YouTube).