> I am often surprised how people in our field don't run the numbers, so they are not talking nonsense when these hard numbers are so easy to generate.
Agreed. Unfortunately the tech industry is driven largely by fashion instead of objective engineering as we'd like to think. Trying to diverge from the fashion du jour (here, cloud.all.the.things) is difficult no matter how solid the numbers are.
At my last couple startups I've run a recurring review of all the cloud costs so at least there is good awareness of how fast the expenses are rising (faster than revenue in every case).
Agreed. Unfortunately the tech industry is driven largely by fashion instead of objective engineering as we'd like to think. Trying to diverge from the fashion du jour (here, cloud.all.the.things) is difficult no matter how solid the numbers are.
At my last couple startups I've run a recurring review of all the cloud costs so at least there is good awareness of how fast the expenses are rising (faster than revenue in every case).