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In my case I see people skipping over things they don’t know when estimating like traffic and actual resource deployment and crap like “yeah Jenkins will be fine in a container”.

Always assumptions, missing info and costs and poor understanding of it because it’s so damn complicated understanding cost. Consider traffic costing across several regions and you can regularly just piss $20k away from a small architectural decision made wrong.

Estimating costs is Actually so difficult that it has almost entirely replaced the old role of license management under the lie that renting your shit monthly makes that concern go away.




In theory, the presence of other cloud providers should help drive costs down.

"The difference between theory and practice is greater in practice than in theory."--Herb Sutter in C++ Users Journal some decades ago.




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