And the best thing is that until it’s a problem you can focus on product/market fit and delighting your customers.
Overengineering is a plague amongst SWEs, and almost as dangerous as failing to sell the product in the market.
Overengineering is a plague amongst SWEs, and almost as dangerous as failing to sell the product in the market.
Sorry if this comes off as brusque, but I've seen good engineers want to use Elasticache for the right reasons and seen "leaders" tell them no because "caching is one of the hard problems in computer science."
Leadership-by-folksy-saying is sadly a real thing.
Not dealing with loads of technology choices in the early days is a boon.
Once we hit more than $100m in rev it made sense to allow a bit more optimisation for purpose - but only when we had cash flow to pay for it. Otherwise all these fancy-shmancy choices are just dressed-up tech debt.
Yeah my original comment was about experiences working at places with this kind of monetary success (if not more) and stubbornly not evolving. Low trust eng leadership philosophies will do that though.