[deitcher]

That is what I like about the cloud. Running in your own hardware lets you be, well, "lazy" about application architecture. Running in a place where it is shared and instances can disappear forces you to design a lot more robustly and nimbly.

Of course, that design discipline is great wherever you are running....

[toomuchtodo]

Hardware is almost always cheaper than engineering time. Don't optimize prematurely.

[deitcher]

Yes, but engineering is cheaper than running after real-time problems.

[toomuchtodo]

Now we get to the technical debt debate. Sometimes, you have to make good decisions now instead of perfect decisions later. The market doesn't care how elegant your code is.

[deitcher]

No debate, I agree with everything you have said. But sometimes you have to clean that garbage up because it does matter to the market.

[josh2600]

The market cares about uptime, and cost relative to return.

Perfect should never be the enemy of the good.

[toomuchtodo]

> Perfect should never be the enemy of the good.

Only in a world where resources are infinite does this work.