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Software engineers are shockingly dumb when it comes to infra costs and will quickly push the technology arm of a company to jam everything in the cloud because
by kortilla 2y ago
Software engineers are shockingly dumb when it comes to infra costs and will quickly push the technology arm of a company to jam everything in the cloud because it’s more convenient for them.
It’s not shocking at all that margins are that high when a team pushes to pay AWS $40k a month for a static workload that could run on two racks of servers.
- galeaspablo 2y ago“Dumb” could be reworded ;) I would say “irrational when it comes to costs”. Not all developers ask questions such as: Does paying 10K for convenience save me and my team more than 10k worth of time? Does this vendor make it easy to migrate out? Of course I’m biased, because I like it better when the answers favor us, cloud vendors. But there are no catch all answers; as always, it depends.