Depends on the product, but for many startups those additional costs can be crippling. Also, I have found it much easier to onboard a new engineer, give them t

Depends on the product, but for many startups those additional costs can be crippling. Also, I have found it much easier to onboard a new engineer, give them the requirements for a service and let them go at it. I've been using AWS Lambdas to great effect in this way.