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I'm experiencing the contrary, my company paying over a 100K a year for a managed service I could deploy and maintain single handed and it would still require l
by EdwardDiego 4y ago
I'm experiencing the contrary, my company paying over a 100K a year for a managed service I could deploy and maintain single handed and it would still require less than 5% of my time.
But you know, when you're scared of the unknown unknowns, the risk, managed services are attractive.
- ilyt 4y agoIf we started from scratch, all the automation we have would take months to build so cloud might be cost effective for first few years. But with automation already in place cost to both maintain that and that once-a-month visit to replace a hard disk in datacenter, or once-a year half-day to install few servers is far cheaper than anything cloud, especially if you need bandwidth
- jameshart 4y agoThe cost to a business of lost developer productivity is not the salary cost of the developer doing non dev work. It is the lost productivity of the developer not making the things you’re paying them for. The reason the business is willing to spend $x a year on the developer is because the developer produces >$x a year of value, in the form of revenue generating software. If you divert 5% of your time into doing something else, you are taking money the business wanted to invest into capital (new software features) and spending it on… something else. Lunch orders or whatever. Not making capital, anyhow.
- kqr 4y agoHuh. I find myself partly disagreeing with this but I cannot for the life of me articulate why. Upvoted in the hope that a discussion is sparked...
- TYMorningCoffee 4y agoThere also qualitative benefits like the knowledge the developer and the company gains. Also, the developer might enjoy the change of scenery.