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More like ordering 133 lunches every day for your 100 employees and dumping 33 in the trash.
by brianwawok 6y ago
More like ordering 133 lunches every day for your 100 employees and dumping 33 in the trash.
- billyhoffman 6y agoAnd doing this for months. Without noticing. Honestly this isn’t ultimately engineerings fault. This is a SaaS business Someone in their company is responsible for the COGS KPI. For that person to either not notice an increase in COGS, or to not be aggressively incentivizing engineering to reduce COGS, is giant red flag.
- zaphirplane 6y agoOuch this thread ruined some poor souls promotion / pay rise narrative
- jinpan 6y agoThe article did say that the motivation for doing so was because AWS credits were running out .. why prematurely optimize a free resource? :)
- rlayton2 6y agoPerhaps more like ordering 100 lunches for your 100 employees and forgetting that 20 of them moved to night shift?
- sankalp221 6y agoFun fact, 30-40% of the food in our supply chain is wasted. So, we're actually not too far from that. Sure, the meals aren't directly wasted by the company and rather through the supply chain. But, the waste is still there and is surprisingly high IMO. Source: https://www.usda.gov/foodwaste/faqs https://www.usda.gov/foodwaste/faqs