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That's the best metric I've heard. When your Heroku bill is the same as what a full time ops person would cost, start looking to hire.
by blacktriangle 6y ago
That's the best metric I've heard. When your Heroku bill is the same as what a full time ops person would cost, start looking to hire.
- jacquesm 6y agoI would say it has to be at least double that and maybe even higher.
- rualca 6y agoIf you are already deploying to Heroku, you are already doing ops. It makes zero sense to presume you don't need to know what you're doing or benefit from automating processes just because you can't hire a full-time expert.
- blacktriangle 6y agoTrue, but there's a difference between solving ops problems by throwing more money at hardware and solving ops problems by thinking smarter. That's why I think that some multiple of an FTE salary is a good metric for when you start transitioning to more complex operational setups, because it gives you a number for when the gain of that new complexity is worth the cost.