alt Hacker News> but do you really need a Cadillac Escalade (New Relic/Datadog/etc) to go to the grocery store
Depends if your objective is to go to the grocery store or merely showing off going to the grocery store.
During the ZIRP era there was a financial incentive for everyone to over-engineer things to justify VC funding rounds and appear "cool". Business profitability/cost-efficiency was never a concern (a lot of those business were never viable and their only purpose was to grift VC money and enjoy the "startup founder" lifestyle).
Now ZIRP is over, but the people who started their career back then are still here and a lot of them still didn't get the memo.
> During the ZIRP era there was a financial incentive for everyone to over-engineer things to justify VC funding rounds and appear "cool".
Yep, and what’s worse is that…
> Now ZIRP is over, but the people who started their career back then are still here and a lot of them still didn't get the memo.
…folks let go from BigTech are filtering into smaller orgs, and the copy-pasters and “startup lyfers” are bringing this attitude with them. I guess I got lucky enough to start my interest in tech before the dotcom crash, my career just before the 2008 crash, and finished my BigTech tenure just after COVID (and before the likely AI crash), and thus am always weighing the costs versus the benefits and trying to be objective.