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Same problem with janitors, or a NOC/ops team...it doesn't enhance your career to say "we kept everything working", and building a better solution requires much

Same problem with janitors, or a NOC/ops team...it doesn't enhance your career to say "we kept everything working", and building a better solution requires much more investment and has a much longer-term deliverable that it's almost impossible to get people who are trying to "climb the ladder" or get re-elected for a second and final term to cut out a significant portion of the budget for.

yourapostasy 9y ago
> ...it doesn't enhance your career to say "we kept everything working", and building a better solution requires much more investment and has a much longer-term deliverable that it's almost impossible...to cut out a significant portion of the budget for. The next time one of your managers takes this approach, remind them Amazon did not accept "we kept everything working" as good enough infrastructure. We're in a unique period in history where nearly every part of the infrastructure of future generations is up for grabs for re-imagining, because most of our civilization's infrastructure does not embed computational capabilities. Does your management want the status quo, or do they want 10X or better improvements in cost and utility that can be sold as the new infrastructure? The last time Amazon did that to a widely-accepted status quo infrastructure, we ended up with AWS.