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Seems quite presumptuous to assume those choices were not adding value. Would you be able to tell if they were? Most importantly, as mentioned in the article,
by jiofih 6y ago
Seems quite presumptuous to assume those choices were not adding value. Would you be able to tell if they were?
Most importantly, as mentioned in the article, engineering teams need (and want) clear business goals. There is a huge chasm between having an expected ROI vs having no targets at all.
- burntoutfire 6y agoThe very complex and ambitious solutions they engineered, are currently a nightmare to maintain, as it's hard to hire people who can understand them (thanks to the technologies being very new and/or niche). Meanwhile, the requirements were bog standard and there's no demand to be scalable, to have high reliability etc. The system could probably be coded by a bunch of interns and grads in whatever language they fancy.