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> You're taking a specific example and trying to make a general rule out of it.

I used a specific example to disprove a straw men about the impact of tech choices on latency. Then I brought up a second personal example (e-commerce sites) and data from a large e-commerce site (impact of latency) to illustrate that latency could drive a direct business loss (and be very hard to measure).

> I recall an internal project where a team discussed switching a Python service with Go.

Picking an initial choice and switching a choice are very different problems. The latter has an inherent large cost.




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