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That is what I like about the cloud. Running in your own hardware lets you be, well, "lazy" about application architecture. Running in a place where it is shared and instances can disappear forces you to design a lot more robustly and nimbly.

Of course, that design discipline is great wherever you are running....

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Hardware is almost always cheaper than engineering time. Don't optimize prematurely.

Yes, but engineering is cheaper than running after real-time problems.

Now we get to the technical debt debate. Sometimes, you have to make good decisions now instead of perfect decisions later. The market doesn't care how elegant your code is.

The market cares about uptime, and cost relative to return.

Perfect should never be the enemy of the good.

> Perfect should never be the enemy of the good.

Only in a world where resources are infinite does this work.

No debate, I agree with everything you have said. But sometimes you have to clean that garbage up because it does matter to the market.

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