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静水铭室 Silent Water and Curved Mountain

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“Use-faced” computing: any computing that needs to happen in the tight loop of users interacting with each other or themselves. By this definition, most business insight generations, log processing, server health stats, data reprocessing for cold storage, automated trading, and automatic surveillance analysis are not user-faced computing. Conversely, when you send a message to another user, every step in this process counts as user-faced computing. Many people have the misconception that most user-faced computing has shifted to the cloud (remote servers) in recent years. Messaging, arguably one of the more “even” interactions (i.e., typing/encrypting one message involves very little client computing), still spends very little computing on the server computing. Signal, an open messaging platform, has calculated its server computing costs at approximately 2.9 million dollars per year, equating to about $0.058 per user per year, or roughly 10 vCPU hours per user. User time spent, while no

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