Re:Ask HN: Have we screwed ourselves as software engineers?
by WJW on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @10:41AM
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> Only reasonable thing I can see as an pattern is that cloud experience on top of data things gets paid 30% more.
You say that like a pay rise of 30% is not a good enough reason all by itself for many people.
> For next person commenting that it makes sense: it doesn't with 200gb database and super predictable workload, growth and usage.
Perhaps not for technical or business financial reasons, but those are not the only possible reasons someone might do something. As mentioned before it can make a lot of sense to migrate to cloud if it means you can get a 30% pay rise.
You say that like a pay rise of 30% is not a good enough reason all by itself for many people.
> For next person commenting that it makes sense: it doesn't with 200gb database and super predictable workload, growth and usage.
Perhaps not for technical or business financial reasons, but those are not the only possible reasons someone might do something. As mentioned before it can make a lot of sense to migrate to cloud if it means you can get a 30% pay rise.