> I've never come across a devops person who'd say "Hey, that sofware is too simple to prematurely scale for sudden spikes of irrational amounts of traffic, so

> I've never come across a devops person who'd say "Hey, that sofware is too simple to prematurely scale for sudden spikes of irrational amounts of traffic, so why not just deploy it on a cheap vps?" I’ve lost startup jobs for basically this. As in “let’s focus on our mvp instead of adopting k8s and discussing “the definition of done” for literally six hours a week”. That one ran out of money and folded, sadly. They had tons of potential and a few bad hires. But also on the other side, my time is expensive, engineering time is expensive, downtime is catastrophic for a new business. Some people want to spend 4 5 or 6 figures to save twenty dollars a month. Imagine my time is worth $500 an hour, if the effort to make something cheaper doesn’t pay for itself in a year then it’s probably a waste of resources.