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A core part of an engineers job is including thinking about cost in what they do.
by rowanG077 5mo ago
A core part of an engineers job is including thinking about cost in what they do.
- loloquwowndueo 5mo agoRight - nobody who’s had a formal education in engineering would think that way, because cost considerations are part of the curriculum from the start.
- decimalenough 5mo agoI can't recall cost ever coming up as a consideration during my years of formal computer science studies in school. Big-O efficiency, sure, but the cost of compute, storage, bandwidth, nope, not once. It was absolutely hammered into me in the years of working for startups that followed, though.
- loloquwowndueo 5mo agoJust noticed you did say computer science, not computer engineering. Two very different things.
- torginus 5mo agoI don't think a lot of formal education places teach AWS's resource pricing structure, which can be incredibly confusing, but can be boiled down to: if you want to be as cheap as possible, just use EC2 for everything and maybe S3 for storage.
- rowanG077 5mo agoI'm very surprised you expect any formal education to teach any specific pricing structure. You teach how to evaluate solutions for their price impact. No one was claiming any curriculum includes AWS's resource pricing structure.