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So why don't they hire fewer people for more hours (at higher pay)?

• Spooky23 10y ago
  They do. Minus the pay. It's called downsizing. The current trend is to have a strategy/build/run model. The "run" people keep the lights on and run as lean as possible. Builders build stuff -- code and infrastructure. Code is high value, off the shelf stuff is going cloud. Strategy is architecture and mapping back to business needs and dollars. You pay as little as possible to run. You pay whatever it takes to build. As cloud tools mature and standardize, costs will drop here. Strategy is the governance process -- light in a startup, heavy in a bank.
  • hueving 10y ago
    >You pay as little as possible to run If that were the case people wouldn't be using 'the cloud'. For any non trivial size of compute load that isn't on demand, paying aws or gce is flushing money down the toilet.
    • Spooky23 10y ago
      Depends on lots of stuff. Companies think short term, and will perceive savings if they can avoid making capital investments in datacenters or long term leases.