[Solved] What is the value of performance in an application, in dollar form? [closed]

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Distributed Computing Economics written by Jim Gray in 2003 is a good start. See this quote:

From this we conclude that one dollar equates to

  • = 1 $
  • ≈ 1 GB sent over the WAN
  • ≈ 10 Tops (tera cpu operations)
  • ≈ 8 hours of cpu time
  • ≈ 1 GB disk space
  • ≈ 10 M database accesses
  • ≈ 10 TB of disk bandwidth
  • ≈ 10 TB of LAN bandwidth

Obviously the values have changed since then, but this is very concrete data pointing to the fact that performance counts.

A more recent post related to this subject on High Scalability blog: At Scale Even Little Wins Pay Off Big – Google And Facebook Examples.

solved What is the value of performance in an application, in dollar form? [closed]