“The underlying causes of the increased costs are, among others, the exploding demand for AI-related computing power and for cloud services. In addition, raw material prices and production costs have also generally risen for manufacturers. The costs for RAM and SSDs especially have risen by a large amount. For example, the cost for DRAM memory has increased up to 500% since September 2025. And according to market researchers like TrendForce, this price trend will continue throughout the year.”

API gateways (which is what server side load-balancer can be abstracted as) serve as important control points for service traffic, for example for auth, monitoring and observability, application firewall, rate limiting etc.

In my general experience code running on the client side is less reliable due to permutations of browsers, flaky networks, challenges with observability.

That said, client side already has one type of load balancing - DNS - but that doesn’t address the availability challenge.

Coding speed was never really a bottleneck anywhere I have worked - it’s all the processes around it that take the most time and AI doesn’t help that much there.

This is a common misconception among those used to modern “western” medicine: while “eastern” medicine does have a range of options to deal with existing medical conditions the emphasis is always on prevention (there’s a famous Chinese medical maxim along the lines of it being better to fight the enemy outside the city walls than inside) whereas Western medicine mostly pays lip service to the idea (for reasons that unfortunately mostly come down to money).

There is no denying that our modern medicine is superior in treating the immediate symptoms (which may well be life threatening) including surgery.

The relaxation exercises being discussed are really there just for the purpose of making sitting meditation effective, essential to stop the body getting in the way of the practice and that is all. In a way the body (and the associated work required to keep it in health) is seen as a necessary evil by those on the spiritual cultivation path.

Honestly, it is such a surprise that the difference is not obvious.

That said, I suspect a bad technical decision may have people and communication causes and not fixing the problem once it is apparent is definitely rooted in these.

Technical debt and leadership vacuum are both interesting and intertwined hard problems.

There are different stages of company lifecycle, different industries, different regulatory environments etc.

The processes put in place always have a cost - if picked appropriately it is worth paying, otherwise it is a waste that can hurt or even kills a project. This balance is the “art” of the job that I personally am only starting to probe around at my level and so it is still quite interesting. :)

At a couple of places I worked at this was a hard compliance requirement: there had to be at least one review by a human to guard against an engineer slipping in malicious code (knowingly or otherwise).

That’s a rabbit hole on my list to go down - recently set up DMARC for some domains I am hosting emails for and the XML reports that now end up in my inbox were… refreshing to see in 2025 :)

On the other hand the bee social structure (not sure what the right word to use here) is so brutal that taking their honey seems to be just keeping pace. :)