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Re:How we spent $30k in Firebase in less than 72 hours on Thursday August 02, 2018 @02:36AM (#17669631)
Unfortunately I often see developers asking for complex diagnose in urgent emergencies. When it's literally like a 30 minutes reaction time frame. So from business pov there should be first quick and dirty unperfect analysis which is necessary for emergency decisions. Sometimes you can just prolong caching time as quick fix, but sometimes there is no such option. Programmers like nice and calm working environment but business often is very different place. So, please have in mind what business goals are. And yes, I see there is a lot of stupid managers in It and basically you're right, we should use precise data. Just one point: when available...