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The broken relationship between engineering and cloud bill owners
- JoeAltmaier 4y agoPlenty of examples of this in practice (where Engineering guesses at cloud configuration then never revisits). The wrong CPU - 64 hypercores when 1 or 2 would do, or a single-core cheapie when a reserved larger CPU is appropriate etc. The wrong support - AES support missing causing massive slowdowns. The wrong connectivity - slow links between layers instead of co-located. The wrong location - cheap US location instead of Hong Kong or someplace, causing massive latency issues I've been at companies that did it all. Spending $X10 what a better configuration would have cost.
- akh 4y agoGreat examples - thanks!