Why are people upvoting low-effort snark like this?
Because it’s sadly true
Yeah, it is better to manage 50 people and millions in hardware than do the same work with just 2 engineers and one server.
You then get those completely unnecessary feats of technology when really, a single server is usually good to run hundreds of thousands of transactions per second.
It infuriates me that incompetence is promoted and the only way to get rewarded is to be good at internal politics.
Now, if you wait for someone else to do this then you swoop in and cut that spending by 90%... now you're talking. Then the next person can reverse what you did and we all keep making money digging holes then filling them back up.
Pay it forward.