Comment by cpard
1 day ago
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It seems that he managed to get what he wanted from the hardware and I'm happy for them.
He said something interesting at the beginning of his post, he compared the cost of the hardware to the cost of his time based on his FAANG salary. Which is an interesting way to think of this, but the rest of the article didn't make me understand if at the end he did save money/time based compared to just rend on the cloud.
Also, outside of the power cost, hardware has other costs too, you need to operate it, maintain it, set it up, etc. all that require time. I mean, even the process of figuring out if it had a good enough ROI compared to cloud, takes from your time (collecting data, analyzing data, etc etc).
Doubt it, feels basically like just an ad to get attention "Oh look, that's where the magic happens" vs running their code on existing infrastructure and thus just showing the results, like everybody else. This "feels" more "tangible".