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A new head of operations joins a small company.
— Okay guys, I’m planning for the long run. I need 500 warehouses across the country — we might need that capacity. We will build them rather than renting them — Amazon does the same thing, so we should too. We also need our own shipping fleet — FedEx has that too, so it’s a battle-tested approach. We might need that capacity. We need a future-proof solution.
— Uh… That’s kind of dumb. Are you kidding me?

A new head of engineering joins a small company.
— Okay guys, I’m planning for the long run. I need an AWS cluster running Kubernetes deploying microservices built with Docker. We might need autoscaling. Frontend should be Next.js + TypeScript — everyone does that now, plus we can develop a React Native app more easily if need be. We need a future-proof solution.
— Wow! That’s what I call a good manager. You really know what you’re talking about. You’re promoted!

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    I’m sure all 5000 monthly users will appreciate the auto scaling setup!
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    @ars1 lmao those are rookie numbers. I can handle that with a $40 VPS.
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    Head of OPs want to compete against amazon and FedEx at the same time, by building out an infrastructure that those two companies spent decades on, in a few month. Company crashes before done

    Head of engineering wants bloat on top of bloat with even more bloat on the side. Company slows down to a crawl, because of the overhead.
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