If you have enough traffic, the cost of servers outweighs the cost of programmers

Posted April 8, 2009 * Comments(1)

Quote from Bill Venners (via):

If you have enough traffic, at some point the cost of servers outweighs the cost of programmers

Absolutely true, which is why places like Yahoo and Google are among the last bastions of very skilled C/C++ programmers.

Of course I should mention: you are not at that point. You really aren’t. So for now ignore this quote.

1 Comment so far

  1. Amit C on April 10th, 2009

    And the Quant finance world uses C too,
    http://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&gid=90917&discussionID=1886797&split_page=7&goback=.hom

    Though as you correctly mentioned in passing, it is not increasing and probably reducing.

    Amit

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