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by ProZsolt 1979 days ago
I think it's also a problem that engineers are rarely incentivized to make the right decision initially. If the initial price is low they will be prized if they able to cut down the development time. After that if the solution auto scales then it will be the beancounter's problem.
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I deliberately make things expensive during development so there’s room to ‘optimize’ later.