How the economics of multitenancy work. Blacksmith spiega come un cloud CI con workload variabili e con molti spike diventa economicamente sostenibile con l'aumentare dei clienti:
Over time, CI jobs start behaving like a Poisson process — random, short bursts spread out across time. From a distance, what once looked like sharp spikes from individual customers smooths into a predictable pattern. The more customers we serve, the less intense each individual spike appears. In short: the more chaotic it gets, the better it is for our business.
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Basically, our revenue scales with the average utilization of the fleet. There’s a direct link between utilization and gross margins, and it’s not linear.
- At 10% utilization, we’re already hitting around 35% gross margins.
- At 20% utilization, margins jump to about 70%.
- At 35% utilization, we’re flirting with 85%+ gross margins.
