Re:Show HN: See the impact on your cloud costs as you code
by lumost on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @09:59AM
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should they? The business needs to understand the cost trajectory of the service. But it's very easy for large organizations to be penny-wise and pound foolish.
A company employees engineers in the hopes of reaping value significantly higher than their pay in the future. Analysis takes time, time requires money - reviews require multiple people's time. If you are looking at 1k per month in expenses - but spend 1 month debating methods of saving ~500 bucks per mont at the cost of ~1 engineer. You can easily be looking at a 20+ month time to return on investment. Computers generally halve in cost every 2 years - so you're time to reach a 2x ROI can easily be 4-5 years. Most businesses need a return on capital of ~10% to justify investors not simply placing their funds in the stock market.
Re:Show HN: See the impact on your cloud costs as you code
by pclmulqdq on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @12:42PM
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Bikeshedding is bad in all forms. Bikeshedding over cost is just one more thing to avoid. That is not an excuse to be completely ignorant of cost, though.
A company employees engineers in the hopes of reaping value significantly higher than their pay in the future. Analysis takes time, time requires money - reviews require multiple people's time. If you are looking at 1k per month in expenses - but spend 1 month debating methods of saving ~500 bucks per mont at the cost of ~1 engineer. You can easily be looking at a 20+ month time to return on investment. Computers generally halve in cost every 2 years - so you're time to reach a 2x ROI can easily be 4-5 years. Most businesses need a return on capital of ~10% to justify investors not simply placing their funds in the stock market.