> Code needs to be written properly; you can’t just waste money and resources endlessly to cover up inefficiencies.

Quite rare to hear this wise line these days. An I guess with AI coding assistant, this is only the beginning of this kind of horror story

Great ending, honestly. I hope that dev got fired and truly understood what he had done, and felt the appropriate amount of shame. Not for his error, because we all make mistakes, but for his hubris that allowed him to keep making that same mistake over and over, while insisting he was doing the right thing.

Ok so your dev can't be told off for bringing the stuff out (and for being a moron doing sync calls to a logging service) and this brought the company down

But it was a good call sending it to the cloud. Better than "my problem" it is something being "somebody else's problem"

enjoyable read. thanks for sharing