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Re:I Accidentally Saved My Company Half a Million Dollars by lainga on Monday October 30, 2023 @12:28PM (#38071713)
> You can actually make a very comfortable career of Senior and Staff by learning to identify this kind of work/system and proposing ways to simplify it.

Where?

Re:I Accidentally Saved My Company Half a Million Dollars by tomrod on Monday October 30, 2023 @12:41PM (#38071889)
IT departments, typically, though occasionally there are whole companies that work in "technology" where this type of work can be found.

I said the above as a jest, but seriously, simplification of complex stacks has been a good consulting gig.

Re:I Accidentally Saved My Company Half a Million Dollars by foobiekr on Monday October 30, 2023 @01:02PM (#38072201)
Most large companies. There is a stark difference between the distinguished engineers and the tier below them in terms of asking people to stop doing things badly.
Re:I Accidentally Saved My Company Half a Million Dollars by oooyay on Monday October 30, 2023 @01:02PM (#38072205)
I've typically worked in SRE and platform engineering work and that's where I've gotten exposed to these kinds of Rube Goldberg machines. Make a short list of them when you find them and then use them as a hit list during "cost cutting". Most people don't want to touch these systems because they look big and expansive and generally "work". They're just very poorly optimized.

Dare I say, any time I see a function as a service my brain immediately drifts to inspecting the cost implications of said process.