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I also wonder what the carbon emission reduction would be from this change.

An even less significant rounding error; on the order of ~0.002% relative to AWS carbon footprint at best using FY23 forward net sales as a rough proxy.

Since there are really many companies and people using AWS, the effect would be noticeable if everyone managed such a decrease. Calling it "an even less significant rounding error" borders on bad faith.

> Since there are really many companies and people using AWS, the effect would be noticeable if everyone managed such a decrease.

Your condition is predicated on "everyone" at Pinterest revenue scale justifying the business case of throwing away their existing tech stack and adopting Elixir with an equivalent architecture---never mind that the article is coming from a company that sells Elixir consulting services---while major CSPs voluntarily bend over to notionally substantial revenue decline...and I'm bordering on bad faith??

At least I bothered to put a supporting numerical estimate on the hypothetical; you're just handwaving greenwashed bullshit with improbable, unsupported outcomes.

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