You can get the engineers from those very hardware companies to do bespoke optimizations for your specific high load use cases. That's something a startup would struggle to match.
That doesn't seem to be the case to me. I guess the author wants to do everything on his own terms and maybe companies aren't interested in that.
OTOH garage-startup acquisitions are acquihires.
bluesky19283746•56m ago
iparaskev•52m ago
> So i understand correctly, they spend more even thought They can, optimize and spend less
This is what I understand as well, we could utilise the hw better today and make things more efficient but instead we are focusing on making more. TBH I think both need to happen, money should be spent to make better more performant hw and at the same time squeeze any performance we can from what we already have.
_heimdall•28m ago
Optimization isn't even being considered because its the total cost spent on hardware that is the goal, not output from the hardware.