Readit NewsAny calculations that use stuff like DCF are basically nonsense that ends up being negotions about the multipliers.
What's the current EBITDA?
I have nightly backups dumped to Cloudflare R2 from a GitHub action.
If Neon announces they're shutting down, migrating the database to another provider is a bash 1 liner and an hour of downtime.
If Neon just "goes dark" I can recover from the nightly backup and lose at most 24 hours of data - data that is denormalized into other systems and can be manually recovered if absolutely necessary (but probably not).
Not every company is the same, but for many use cases the database layer is an inconsequential decision as long as the API is fungible for your use case.
Not every decision is a 1-way door.
The most important way you can spend your time when making a 1-way door decision for a company isn't picking the right door. It's turning the decision into a 2-way door.
Most of our work sample stuff is design/architecture based. I'm not worried about how LLMs impact it.
This is the sole way we've hired engineers at Fly.io since 2020 and we have never once brought someone on who turned out to be 3 raccoons in a trenchcoat. Raising the bar further on ourselves: we hire globally, at SF scale salary worldwide.
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On what's a good 1on1 I wrote this https://www.paceflow.io/guides/topics/one-on-ones
Though it will be probably different from what you are going to see in big tech and their smaller copycats where they make 1on1 a glorified status update.