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Ethereum did 7 tx/sec at peak yesterday. Mean response time was 4s. That needed a cluster of 10'000 nodes. 50% of that is running on VC money on AWS US East. Best part? YOU pay once, run forever. But some people want to keep the status quo of RENTING compute.

Ethereum did 7 tx/sec at peak yesterday. Mean response time was 4s. That needed a cluster of 10'000 nodes. 50% of that is running on VC money on AWS US East. Best part? YOU pay once, run forever. But some people want to keep the status quo of RENTING compute. https://x.com/dhh/status/1831392962485612930?s=46

Buidling homestaking stuff HomestakerOS.com

Basecamps Rails sold you on MVC: Model View Controller. Model for database, View for UI, and Controller for backend. Three distinct services. Heroku capitalized on this separation by selling you the idea of 12-factor app. 12 > 3. The number goes up...

Somewhere down the line you got microservices. Now you have 50 apps.  Each function becomes a server. Then you get Kubernetes from Google to handle this. Google sells you AppEngine, pay for invocation. Infinite scalability they say, but now you pay for milliseconds of execution and bandwidth. Google invents SRE role!

In this banana republic deployment and maintenance is made to seem like only the big companies can do it, and you should buy their services to do it for you. Small player get enshackled to pay for ever more intricate units of computation. It's such a weird polarization of the heterogenization that blockchains achieve.