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Engineers almost never consider any of those questions. And instead deploy the maximally expensive solution their boss will say ok to.

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Bad, short-sighted engineers will do that. An engineer who is not acting solely in the best interests of the wider organisation is a bad one. I would not want to work with a colleague who was so detached from reality that they wouldn't consider all GP's suggested facets. Engineering includes soft/business constraints as well as technical ones.

We are saying similar things.

Ah, you are implying that most engineers are bad, I see. In that case I agree too

I don’t know if they are bad engineers, but they have poor judgment.

I bet you also believe database is the single source of truth, right?

I find it is the opposite way around. I come up with <simple solution> based on open source tooling and I am forced instead to use <expensive enterprise shite> which is 100% lock in proprietary BS because <large corporate tech company> is partnered and is subsidising development. This has been a near constant throughout my career.

I agree, my statement is too coarse. There can be a lot of organizational pressure to produce complexity and it’s not fair to just blame engineers.

I’ve given a lot of engineers tasks only to find they are “setting up kubernetes cluster so I can setup automated deployments with a dashboard for …”

And similarly in QA I rarely see a cost/benefit consideration for a particular test or automation. Instead it’s we are going to fully automate this and analyze every possible variable.

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