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by moris_borris 1336 days ago
Last year I worked as a dev at an ad tech firm that apparently had a money printer. The amount of waste, particularly in their cloud architecture, was staggering. Prestigious office in a very expensive city. I noticed that they hired from big-name companies known for being staggeringly wasteful like Uber.

Just one company, sure, but it did make me wonder about adtech in general.

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>Just one company, sure, but it did make me wonder about adtech in general.

The margins are so insane that it just doesn’t matter. They are trading engineering time for time to market.