I wrote the SQL query in 5 mins. Why does my engineer say it will take a month?
On the flip side, when something DOESN'T need HA, sub-millisecond query response time, or lynx and IE Edge compatability, people need to know when "good enough" is good enough.<p>On my ops team, we've gotten some flak for not building robust enough of a request queue for some tasks. But it's been down several hours in the past year. The server almost never needs maintenance. None of the workload is real-time. App restarts are acceptable if memory leaks occur.<p>If we did everything by the enterprise book, we'd still be 70% of the way to a deployed product, instead of 15 months into its completion.