A nugget of insight from an engineering legend at Google: "If you take a dependency on new infrastructure, it becomes your P0."
- A nugget of insight from an engineering legend at Google: "If you take a dependency on new infrastructure, it becomes your P0."
- Everything in the product–including just getting it to market–is now downstream of that infrastructure.
- New infrastructure tends to be a tarpit.
- An idea that looked great in the abstract morphing into a grotesque, fractally complex quagmire.
- The fate of the project is now tied to whether you can make it through that tarpit and get to the other side.
- That is, whether the infrastructure actually works for the purpose it's being put to.