100% agree. I've also run across many cases where no-one bothered to even attempt any benchmarks or load tests on anything (either old or new solutions), compared latency, optimize anything, etc.
Sometimes making 10+ million dollar decisions off that gut feel with literally zero data on what is actually going on.
It rarely works out well, but hey, have to leave that opening for competition somehow I guess?
And I'm not talking about 'why didn't they spend 6 months optimizing that one call which would save them $50 type stuff'. I mean literally zero idea what is going on, what actual performance issues are, etc.
Sometimes making 10+ million dollar decisions off that gut feel with literally zero data on what is actually going on.
It rarely works out well, but hey, have to leave that opening for competition somehow I guess?
And I'm not talking about 'why didn't they spend 6 months optimizing that one call which would save them $50 type stuff'. I mean literally zero idea what is going on, what actual performance issues are, etc.