17. Software Architecture
17.1 Introduction
If you consider the total cost of building and running a given application or data pipeline, you’ll realize there are two major factors. The first is the cost of research and development. Building the application itself is essentially human power. The second is the cost of hosting the application, i.e., infrastructure costs. How much does it cost to store the data? How much does it cost to run the servers that respond to queries or build models?
Your understanding of hardware bottlenecks from Chapter 15 is useful in predicting infrastructural costs because avoiding different bottlenecks will have different impacts. What about the cost of development? Besides administrative, managerial, and procedural ...
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