people hear "lean" and think "cheap." it's the opposite.
cheap is cutting the thing that matters to save a small number — you win a line item and lose the business. lean is spending deliberately on what actually buys you something, so you have room to do the work that moves the business. the point of cutting a $120K/mo observability bill was never the $120K. it was no longer being held hostage by it.
https://rajesh.medampudi.com/blog/what-lean-infrastructure-means
cheap is cutting the thing that matters to save a small number — you win a line item and lose the business. lean is spending deliberately on what actually buys you something, so you have room to do the work that moves the business. the point of cutting a $120K/mo observability bill was never the $120K. it was no longer being held hostage by it.
https://rajesh.medampudi.com/blog/what-lean-infrastructure-means