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Most of the time you don't even need a cluster of any kind. We live in a world where you can spin up a server with 3TB of RAM and 128 cores whenever you want, and it will cost you less than a senior developer.



https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/

x1e.16xlarge, 64 CPU, 2TB of RAM, $10k per month.


So if you pay a senior developer less than 120k then the parent is right.


It costs the employer a lot more than just the salary to have a salaried developer.


What do you do when that one machine goes down?




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