> Mainly because the industry really is a meritocracy and it's about what a person can do now, usually. I think a bigger problem is a combination of the Hawtho

> Mainly because the industry really is a meritocracy and it's about what a person can do now, usually. I think a bigger problem is a combination of the Hawthorne effect and the idea that most methods will work for small problems. You don't get to see the superiority of the "right" solution until you are under heavy load. Most startups don't come under heavy load for 18 months and by that point, they end up throwing more hardware, bandaids, people at the problem and don't realize that the fundamentals were wrong from the start. The success of infrastructure, fundamentals, and strong devops are apparent if you do it right, but not when you do it wrong. This is a bad feedback loop as it doesn't covert the people that are doing it wrong.