In my career across embedded systems, enterprise apps and mobile platforms, one lesson stands out: engineering decisions are purchasing decisions. Slow code drives higher compute cost; inefficient loops or queries translate into dollars.
An article summarised five real-world “million-dollar lines of code” where small inefficient code drivers caused large cloud cost penalties. infoq.com
In a data-processing project I led, refactoring a key algorithm cut processing time and server usage dramatically — avoiding additional hardware entirely.
Treat code-level performance as cost optimisation. The infrastructure bill is not separate from the engineering bill.
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