> Infrastructure is kind of a solved problem for common use cases today, just requires the expertise.
This is the problem however for many (older) companies. They either don't care, or quite literally don't know the infrastructure solutions out there which can save literally thousands of hours per year of headache. Sure, for many companies with legacy systems they have a "dont fix what isn't broken" mindset, but from what I've seen, I always ask, if shipping and modifying new versions of a system takes hours or even days to complete, is the system really not 'broken'? I guess I never realized it, but having automated and clean infrastructure with tests and uptime metrics is a must-have for me on anything I build going forward. Take 2-3 weeks to save months of headache.
This is the problem however for many (older) companies. They either don't care, or quite literally don't know the infrastructure solutions out there which can save literally thousands of hours per year of headache. Sure, for many companies with legacy systems they have a "dont fix what isn't broken" mindset, but from what I've seen, I always ask, if shipping and modifying new versions of a system takes hours or even days to complete, is the system really not 'broken'? I guess I never realized it, but having automated and clean infrastructure with tests and uptime metrics is a must-have for me on anything I build going forward. Take 2-3 weeks to save months of headache.