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I think this is absolute genius.

If you are ever going to get to grips with optimizing something, why not do the opposite first or as a foil?

How often do you really fenangle your database (or other system) properly? Are your performance enhancements really based on science or cargo culting or something else?

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I always do that when working with a new cloud provider. I spend our Series A as fast as possible after which we can optimize cloud spend!

Cloud providers love this one trick.

Yup that's a variation of the general 'deliver a hugely inefficient solution first, then iterate' tactic. Keeps multiple people employed much longer than a little (debatably) "premature" optimisation ahead of time, keep delivering benefits QoQ (that could have been delivered sooner, but whatever...), keep managers happy.

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