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> Should we hire someone else? No! It's cheaper and more reliable to outsource these responsibilities to a team working 100% of the time on it. Well if he did
by easytiger 14y ago
> Should we hire someone else? No! It's cheaper and more reliable to outsource these responsibilities to a team working 100% of the time on it.
Well if he did a good job it would be adequately mitigated. This isn't 1997. It is trivial and cheap to set up reliable redundant systems. Outages happen. But not very often if you have done your job half right. Hopefully so rarely that you decay to near zero.
> and having large parts of the company unable to work because particular services are down.
If it was real time critical yes. But tis a distributed VC we are talking about. Just wait 15 minutes to push and spin your build to the customer. It isnt the end of the world.
- gtaylor 14y agoI think you're missing the point: We could spend extra time doing any number of things ourselves. When it comes down to it, shipping, being productive, and being reasonably efficient are much more important than "just doing it yourself". Especially if you are a tiny-small company, you should not be doing it yourself. You should be battling for success and survival. Not doing it yourself may mean going with BitBucket for some or all of your private repos, in this case.