While I would agree that trying to squeeze every last drop of efficiency may not be worth the time/money for the company. I think the parent is implying that p

While I would agree that trying to squeeze every last drop of efficiency may not be worth the time/money for the company. I think the parent is implying that people are wasting a lot of extra resources due to poor tools, poor coding, poor profiling, poor maintenance, etc. I would agree though that for startups, the problem is finding the place to $$$, it is important to know what the cost per user/connection/instance is and being able to control or monitor it.