What David Heinemeier Hansson thinks about benchmarks
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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2 dated positions, 2023 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what David Heinemeier Hansson has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsGermany has 2.5x fewer road fatalities per mile traveled than the US
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Their wordsAny mid-sized SaaS business and above with stable work loads that does not benchmark their rental bill for servers in the cloud against buying their own boxes is committing financial malpractice at this point
↗We stand to save $7m over five years from our cloud exitworld.hey.com
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