[jchw]

It's kind of funny. These are best practices for running basic run of the mill web services, even something like a forum or personal homepage. Admittedly there's an obvious, massive difference in complexity, but you would expect the gold standard best practices to come from something mission critical like core Internet services and flow down to less critical services, not the other way around.

[GarvielLoken]

Well it is easy to find time to add gold-plating to a small basically useless service, but those guys are probably swamped or try to cut cost by being agile or something.

[adrianN]

Cutting costs by fighting fires all the time^W^W^W^W^Wremoving smoke detectors. The classic strategy.