> you can get started a lot faster, make money, only then look into optimizing. IME, companies often will first fall into the trap of minimum spend with AWS fo

> you can get started a lot faster, make money, only then look into optimizing. IME, companies often will first fall into the trap of minimum spend with AWS for larger discounts, such that even when you _do_ try to optimize things, it doesn’t matter. There is no greater disincentive than saving 5 digits per month, only to be told “thanks, but it doesn’t matter.” Tangentially, I think the rise of cloud and SaaS to blame more than anything for the I-shaped engineer. Why bother learning anything about optimization when K8s will silently add another node to the cluster as needed? Why bother learning SQL when ORMs abound, and your Serverless DB will happily upsize to deal with your terrible schema? After all, you’re being told to ship, ship, ship, so there’s not really any time to learn those things anyway. I simultaneously love and hate cloud providers, and am eagerly awaiting the slow but steady turn towards on-prem/colo. 37Signals has the right idea.