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Re:We saved $50k/year with a Go microservice coded in a hack... by chiefalchemist on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @11:26PM (#16807797)
Them, or the manager that hired them? If no one up the chain brings on a DBA what are they supposed to do? I hear ya. But this is as much a symptom of naive (and budget stretched) leadership as it is of the hands on deck.
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Re:We saved $50k/year with a Go microservice coded in a hack... by olalonde on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @03:48AM (#16808911)
Your solution costs 150K$/year while theirs took a weekend and saves 50K$/year...
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Re:We saved $50k/year with a Go microservice coded in a hack... by chiefalchemist on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @05:32AM (#16809392)
Allow me to clarify.

1) It took a weekend to complete. The friction was building for far longer. There's a cost to that, esp if it effects customer satisfaction and retention. They didn't refactor for fun, did they :) How many dev teams aren't so lucky? Is this article a no choice outlier, or a best practice?

2) My comment wasn't directed at the article but on another comment that blamed the developers. These problems should be owned by ownership / leadership / management more and engineers less.

3) That said, hire a DBA? I don't think that's necessary.

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