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yes -- at smaller places, the goal is usually fixing something urgently broken and the economics are harder to justify which is really frustrating and leads ol
by awinter-py 5y ago
yes -- at smaller places, the goal is usually fixing something urgently broken and the economics are harder to justify
which is really frustrating and leads old hands at small places to become obsessed with conservative build/buy decisions and low TCO tech
nice to be reminded that it's not like that everywhere, there are places where debugging labor pays consistent dividends
- feoren 5y ago> which is really frustrating and leads old hands at small places to become obsessed with conservative build/buy decisions and low TCO tech Can you clarify what you mean here? Are you saying that when people cut their teeth in big companies and then move to small startups, they tend to be overly conservative and favor low TCO tech, when instead they should be spending more money for, what, more growth? Should they be building more in-house, or buying more off the shelf? I'm just not clear which direction you're going here.
- awinter-py 5y agoah no, I'm saying that small co experience leads to visceral fear of tech that is non-mature / difficult to debug / unpredictable (whether or not you're ex-big-5) sorry, by 'low TCO' I wasn't just thinking about $/month -- I was thinking of technology that is non-experimental, easy to hire for and manage, that doesn't take one of your senior people a week per quarter to keep alive. TCO is the wrong word for that.