It's absolutely a balance, but I've seen it the other way too. Devs spending weeks to make something more efficient when compute time costs cents. That has a m

It's absolutely a balance, but I've seen it the other way too. Devs spending weeks to make something more efficient when compute time costs cents. That has a minimum cost of their hourly rate. The maximum cost is the cost of not doing what's most valuable to the company. > In 2019, Lyft spent $300M on AWS [1]. Sure, it's a big service, but are you seriously telling my that it's necessary to spend $300M in a single year? They didn't spend that in a single year. It also depends what they were doing, I was recently very shocked by the data costs of a major hardware store in the US but after breaking it down it made more sense. It all depends what they get for that $300M over 3 years.