Yeah, so now your inexperienced developer just deployed something that takes 10 or 100x more resources than it should, and now you have a massive AWS or GCP bill to pay.
(Which brings up an interesting question, at what point does your cloud computing bill reach a point where it's worth it to pay the slight premium for a more senior engineer to come in and clean up the obvious inefficiencies?)
"The problem is that this is how management thinks all over the world because it is short-term profitable."
Not really, as so many early stage software companies are not interested in being profitable, short-term or otherwise. So cost management and profits are irrelevant, just resume padding for the next opportunity.
I worked on a project that was a clusterfuck of SalesForce, AWS AND Azure.
The company was making hand over fist. They didn't care about the quality so long as the payments were made and they weren't losing customers to competition due to tech choices.
Yeah, so now your inexperienced developer just deployed something that takes 10 or 100x more resources than it should, and now you have a massive AWS or GCP bill to pay.
(Which brings up an interesting question, at what point does your cloud computing bill reach a point where it's worth it to pay the slight premium for a more senior engineer to come in and clean up the obvious inefficiencies?)
"The problem is that this is how management thinks all over the world because it is short-term profitable."
Not really, as so many early stage software companies are not interested in being profitable, short-term or otherwise. So cost management and profits are irrelevant, just resume padding for the next opportunity.