Promotion driven development. Fwiw I’ve deployed services that could handle 30-50k rps on 1vcpu and 1gb ram. Like a couple bucks a month. It used ssd storage a

Promotion driven development. Fwiw I’ve deployed services that could handle 30-50k rps on 1vcpu and 1gb ram. Like a couple bucks a month. It used ssd storage and only hit a main rdbms when there was a cache miss. When I hear stories like this I’m reminded of how dumb and inefficient most organizations are. My colleagues would over engineer stuff so much and then leave a huge bill and mess behind. The primary reason was so their clueless eng manager would consider promoting them.