Comment by ezst
15 hours ago
>> This was costing us ~$300K/year in compute, and the number kept growing as more customers and detection rules were added.
> For something so core to the business, I'm baffled that they let it get to the point where it was costing $300K per year.
And this, this is the core/true/insightful story the executives will never hear about.
Eh. If you get into enterprise business, this is the accepted management style. AI will now mix this up a little, but before you basically needed to ask if you want to blow 300k on developer salaries to maybe fix something that is already working and generating money, or add more features to the roadmap you can pin on your chest. Scaling infrastructure is the best choice for 90% of managers, especially since they are not the ones paying for it and this kind of technical debt doesn't matter on typical bonus check timeframes.
I used to work for AWS on a service team. I noticed we were spending way too much on provisioned concurrency for dynamo and would benefit from on-demand provisioning. After proving it worked, making the change, deploying, was rather pleased with myself. "Saved $2M in costs by switching to on-demand provisioning" barely made it onto my performance review lol.
In an ideal world, you would have gotten those extra bucks. :P
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Managers love big cloud spend so the vendors take them on fancy golf trips ... er ... "Conferences".