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		conradev on Nov 11, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Seeing through hardware counters: A journey to 3x ... Netflix is not doing this work to improve user latency, they are doing this work to minimize cost: > At Netflix, we periodically reevaluate our workloads to optimize utilization of available capacity. The idea being that if you pay for fewer servers you spend less money

abrookewood on Nov 11, 2022 [–]

And at their scale, this makes sense. No one is going to do this work if if means they run 2 servers instead of 6.

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