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How do you come out ahead hiring an entire team to save $6/hour?

• naniwaduni 1y ago
  That's $6/minute, $360/hour. Granted, if you're using it at a scale approaching FTE costs, you probably want at least some reserved capacity and you're likely not paying face value, but then the comparison was never going to be rigorous anyway.
  • what 1y ago
    Oh, I’m an idiot. Sorry, ignore me.
  • AnthonyMouse 1y ago
    That's not even the main problem with the comparison. Suppose it was actually $6/hour. Even that's >$50k/year, indefinitely. How long does it take your team once to make that resource consumption go away permanently? An hour? Even a month? You'd still be ahead.
    • progmetaldev 1y ago
      Working for a smaller digital agency, while using .NET Framework, and then moving to .NET Core (now just .NET) this savings was felt. Using a performance profiler and slightly complicating the code a bit (at least in terms of the documentation for the CMS we use), I was able to get the code in less than the minimum recommended requirements for the base CMS software, without having to alter the source of the CMS. I did this with the Umbraco CMS, but also started using it in 2013 when the documentation was lacking, so reading the source code was a requirement to getting as much as possible out of the software.