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Sure, but you also have to weigh that against what it takes to pay people to develop the wrong architecture at the wrong time, and the opportunity cost to the c
by zeveb 8y ago
Sure, but you also have to weigh that against what it takes to pay people to develop the wrong architecture at the wrong time, and the opportunity cost to the company as a whole to be saddled with those bad decisions. That's not trivial, either.
(although I agree with the sibling comment — one doesn't really learn most languages in a few weeks)
- scarface74 8y agoWell let me tell you the story about some older experienced “infrastructure consultants” who thought that AWS was just like on prem infrastructure, did a lift and shift, moved my former company “to the cloud” and ended up costing more because they thought they had “learned AWS”. Architecture and processes that was fine for one environment was horrible for the other. In development terms, you can write FORTRAN in any language. Let’s not talk about the one Java developer who thought he could pick up C in two or three weeks. It was ugly.