[renewiltord]

Who is cutting anyone out of the conversation? You sell your product and if I care for 100% uptime, I'll pay for it. I actually don't. I can route through lots of stuff for appropriate savings and most people can.

No one wants this single pair of instances in a Tier 4 datacenter that host a single key-pair authenticated process with dual manual approval and an air-gap that dispatches one taxi (and precisely one taxi) every 30 days on a route where it can be guaranteed to hit its time prediction.

Any fool can build a bridge that stands. It takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands.

[hinkley]

I guarantee you there are two ex employees saying “I told you” right now.

Faster faster faster always wins because that’s what the management wants to hear. As long as their options best before the consequences stack up, they have no - and accept no - responsibility for the longevity of the company.

If you haven’t worked with any defectors than you’ve managed better than many of us, or you’re very lucky.

[renewiltord]

Sure. But it's a market. It's possible for consumers to exercise their preference. And overwhelmingly they don't care about this stuff.