Right - nobody who’s had a formal education in engineering would think that way, because cost considerations are part of the curriculum from the start.
replyI don't think a lot of formal education places teach AWS's resource pricing structure, which can be incredibly confusing, but can be boiled down to: if you want to be as cheap as possible, just use EC2 for everything and maybe S3 for storage.
replyI'm very surprised you expect any formal education to teach any specific pricing structure. You teach how to evaluate solutions for their price impact. No one was claiming any curriculum includes AWS's resource pricing structure.
replyI can't recall cost ever coming up as a consideration during my years of formal computer science studies in school. Big-O efficiency, sure, but the cost of compute, storage, bandwidth, nope, not once.
replyIt was absolutely hammered into me in the years of working for startups that followed, though.
Just noticed you did say computer science, not computer engineering. Two very different things.
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