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nfw2today at 6:37 AM2 repliesview on HN

1. Rendered content, if there is enough of it, will be more content to send across wire than a cached bundle.

2. Cached bundles are cached. Network doesnt matter when its cached

3. Even bottom of the barrel motorolas are not wimpy nowadays

4. The obvious reasons why I dont want my aws box to do rendering is because it will need to everyone's rendering, and how big "everyone" is in not constant. It's another moving part in a complex system that can break. Also because I have to pay for the box.

5. Fast networks are becoming more and more ubiquitous

6. The performance gains are for a static site, which won't necessarily be representative of typical saas. How do you measure the risk and cost of my site breaking because my date rendering server got overloaded?


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troupotoday at 7:19 AM

> Even bottom of the barrel motorolas are not wimpy nowadays

They are: https://infrequently.org/2025/11/performance-inequality-gap-...

That said, RSCs and the rest of the "let's render a static site but let's also send a multimegabyte bundle for 'hydration'" is still wrong

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gherkinnntoday at 11:27 AM

Is serialising a model and building JSON that much more expensive than rendering HTML?

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