The one universal truth in corporate America is that if your boss’s boss spent a million dollars on somehing, they’re going to make you ‘use’ it if it’s the last thing they do.
Because they worry it will be if they fail. See also multi year contracts for software that’s terrible.
Netflix needs n instances to operate at peak capacity. The article is about them utilizing those pre-paid, necessary compute resources when the actual streaming they do requires a small fraction of n. I'm not sure how that has any correlation to multi year software contracts.
Because they worry it will be if they fail. See also multi year contracts for software that’s terrible.