Just today I had yet another conversation about how BigCo doesn't give a damn about cost.
Just to give you one example - last BigCo I worked for had a schematic for new projects which resulted in... 2k EUR per month cloud cost for serving a single static html file.
At one point someone up top decided that kubes is the way to go and scrambled an impromptu schematic for new projects which could be simply described as a continental class dreadnought of a kubernetes cluster on AWS.
And it was signed off, and later followed like a scripture.
Couple stories lower we're having hard time arguing for 50 EUR budget for a weekly beer for the team, but the company is A fine with paying 2K EUR for a landing page.
Just to give you one example - last BigCo I worked for had a schematic for new projects which resulted in... 2k EUR per month cloud cost for serving a single static html file.
At one point someone up top decided that kubes is the way to go and scrambled an impromptu schematic for new projects which could be simply described as a continental class dreadnought of a kubernetes cluster on AWS.
And it was signed off, and later followed like a scripture.
Couple stories lower we're having hard time arguing for 50 EUR budget for a weekly beer for the team, but the company is A fine with paying 2K EUR for a landing page.