David Heinemeier Hansson

Ruby on Rails has been championed for its ability to enhance programmer productivity by trading off compute time, which has become increasingly economical compared to programmer costs. The focus should be on optimizing the expensive biological cores (programmers) over the cheaper silicon cores (computers). While optimizing software for maximum hardware efficiency can be admirable, it often doesn't make economic sense for most business software, where high-level languages and tools can drastically improve productivity and profitability.

Optimize for bio cores first, silicon cores second

Not to be salty or rude, but can you have an image or banner for every post? Everything shared from your blog shows the same face staring at me and is somehow out of context : )

Loved the read, short, straight to the point.

This article concerned about how to efficiently spend money, programmer wages vs hardware renting fees. But in real world, where did the money comes from? It’s from the client, and the service provided are running on hardware, thats why we need to optimized the silicon cores first.

Nice perspective. Also, you keep mentioning RoR multiple times. You don’t have to remind us that you invented RoR.