@mcc at last job, I spend a lot of time trying to optimize a task that was taking 30 seconds. I run out of time, we ship to the test server. Task take 3 seconds. I'm baffled. I mention that to colleagues. "oh, yeah, that's a known issue …
@gauthier have you seen the paper about some peels buying every pixel 3 in craiglist, running a kubernetes cluster on them and running some benchmark on that? They got really nice performance and even outperforming AWS for some task