nstart already pointed out that it didn't take long to do it, but... i've seen this attitude over and over again - "expenses are cheap, engineers are expensive, money will just keep flowing", etc.
We don't all live in worlds of unlimited budgets. For them to have taken 2 weeks (maybe $5k of effort) to save $130k plus is phenomenal (and yet, also just mundane). This means more money can be spent on hiring someone else, or higher profit sharing for all, vs just continually and marginally increasing someone else's bottom line.
As buffer grows, their needs will grow and expenses will grow. I hate to push out predictions too far in the future, but this $5k of effort is probably going to save them $500k over the next 3-5 years.
What's a bit irritating in all this is that the folks behind it probably won't be rewarded correspondingly (although buffer seems a bit more open and egalitarian about these sorts of things).
I'm glad you called out the cumulative savings benefit.
I'll add that they also gain a benefit multiplier in the form of the knowledge they gained from the exercise. Something that will hopefully be carried through into their future infrastructure decision making processes.
We don't all live in worlds of unlimited budgets. For them to have taken 2 weeks (maybe $5k of effort) to save $130k plus is phenomenal (and yet, also just mundane). This means more money can be spent on hiring someone else, or higher profit sharing for all, vs just continually and marginally increasing someone else's bottom line.
As buffer grows, their needs will grow and expenses will grow. I hate to push out predictions too far in the future, but this $5k of effort is probably going to save them $500k over the next 3-5 years.
What's a bit irritating in all this is that the folks behind it probably won't be rewarded correspondingly (although buffer seems a bit more open and egalitarian about these sorts of things).