i meant with. google has built some really great tools for minimizing toil when pushing major changes across a codebase. even then, there’s a nontrivial overhea

i meant with. google has built some really great tools for minimizing toil when pushing major changes across a codebase. even then, there’s a nontrivial overhead that is borne across the company. > Why would you say that is? many/most businesses don’t have the margins/scale/time to focus on it. in a lot of businesses (amazons included) the goal for the business is to try as many things as fast as possible and scale that which works and abandon what fails. the goal of infrastructure there is to get out of the way and enable the layers above to build things as naively and simply as possible with little to no churn.