> i feel like you have never touched servers/backend in anything more than simple projects (or at all). with full storage/memory there could be an issue that you won't be able to ssh to the server, so it speaks about your knowledge in this matter.
He was answering that.
If instead of dismissing someone outright and question their competence, you had raised specific concerns, this would have been a more productive conversation
he first said that we don't need to monitor anything, just enable debugging when "business metrics" are failing, and then he changed his stance to "polling from time to time". that's just shows that his first take wasn't thoughtful, so I assumed that he never worked in "the field" or worked on smaller projects, as nobody that worked in bigger projects would say that "we don't need CPU/mem/hdd metrics". it's not like hes proposing something novel, that just ridiculous take that needs to be called out