Make it cheaper

Where the bill comes from, and what each saving costs somewhere else.

1. 1Cost MechanicsWhat is metered, and what is the smallest increment you are charged for?
2. 2Scheduling & Workload ManagementWhich work runs now, which work waits, and who pays for the waiting?
3. 3Storage: Physical OrganizationWhat should sit next to what, given that I must decide at write time and find out at read time?
4. 4Encoding, Serialization & CompressionWhat do we turn our values into when we turn them into bytes, and what does that choice cost?
5. 5Table & Storage MaintenanceWho pays for the gap between the order data arrives in and the order it is read in: the writer, every reader, or a background job, and what is the break-even?
6. 6CachingWhat happens when we deliberately keep a second copy of data that no protocol forces to be correct?

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