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Exactly, hire a team of 3 and pay 500K in compensation, or spend 100K on a system that works and you get a support person to call in the event of an issue. The
by bastardoperator 2y ago
Exactly, hire a team of 3 and pay 500K in compensation, or spend 100K on a system that works and you get a support person to call in the event of an issue. The math is so simple.
- liontwist 2y agoExcept you’re not considering the cost of when you can’t deliver something on time for a customer because infrastructure you don’t control is down. You don’t outsource things that prevent you from doing your core competency.
- bastardoperator 2y agoAnd for most companies, building and managing an SCM is absolutely not their core competency. Your point is valid, but not in the way you're trying to convey it.
- liontwist 2y ago> building and managing an SCM is absolutely not their core competency. Building their software is - Github being down is currently preventing that for many companies.
- bastardoperator 2y agoNope, sorry. Github offers cloud and on premise offerings. If you choose cloud and your company can't handle a 45 minute service outage, that's just a bad purchasing decision. You do realize they make most of their revenue from on premise enterprise customers and that none of those customers were impacted? The solution was there the entire time but they can't force people to use it.
- vv_ 2y agoIt's surreal to imagine most companies not being able to handle a 45-min service outage of a VCS to begin with. Sounds to me like a GitHub mandated break for all SE 's.
- vv_ 2y agoThe costs would be trivial for the vast majority of Software Engineering companies. Talking about corner cases is useless as they often need a custom specialized solution anyways and wouldn't be using GitHub in the first place.