I remember vividly a conversation with @tqbf when I was at his office regarding optimizations I could make to Redis to prevent me from having to go up to a 1 GB VPS.
“How much does it cost extra?”
“$10 a month.”
“Then why are we having this conversation?”
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In addition to being reflexive nosetweaking, I’ll point out that this is a reason to avoid usage-based pricing for developer-oriented tools and, instead, orient pricing around proxies for sophistication.
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Not only is it better for you, it will be better for your customers, as relatively few developers say “Oh we’re actually *not* sophisticated. I would like my account downgraded to Total Noob, please.” and so this won’t incentivize unproductive reinventing of wheels optimization.
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“What’s a proxy for sophistication?” Features like SAML which strongly suggest there is a materially sized business using the software with standardized guidelines for vendor management administered by professionals, as opposed to one dev trying things out.
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Before I wrote code I would rant about the inefficiency of this. Two weeks to build your own parse clone to save $10/mo? That’s crazy! Then I learned to code, and discovered why: solving these things is the fun part.
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true! but as a developer writing code myself instead of using an off the shelf solution (1) teaches me things, (2) lets me productively use time I would've otherwise wasted, (3) is fun to do, and (4) lets me build exactly the solution I want
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i agree for a business it's not optimal to have its developers building things themselves instead of spending a little money for something battle-tested. but as a dev the tradeoff makes sense
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It can be super fun to "beat" the vendor but if all you do is chase the shifting sands of vendor pricing and product offerings, it's incredibly demoralizing.
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Building stuff is fun. Building a case and jumping through all the red tape to get the business to pay for a service, isn’t. More an more things I’d much rather just pay for.
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It always surprise me when managers encourage this too
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