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Designing Data-Intensive Applications – Reliability

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The price of compute doesn't scale linearly, so a hundred gigahertz processor is significantly cheaper than it's more than 100. We say like you can do a cloud, a cloudy computer, a DC-2 instance with two cores and you'll pay $10 a month. You go up to four cores, twice as many cores, and now you're paying 25 bucks a month. And that keeps going until you get to where you do on say 32 cores and it's way more than 16 times more expensive. It could be a hundred times more expensive because of the cost don't scale literally.

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