This is, by the way, one of those problems the Cloud solved, because management couldn’t use friction with the procurement and operations departments to try to

This is, by the way, one of those problems the Cloud solved, because management couldn’t use friction with the procurement and operations departments to try to pin you into oversubscribing machines. Cloud computing usually leaves the barn door open so that you can requisition another server and ask forgiveness later. And I think at some level developers all know this, so we went along with the dope deal. Because fuck Operations and Accounting for making us the scapegoats to problems they cause.