It’s not uncommon for great software companies to invest upward of 50 percent of all R&D funds into infrastructure. But it will be tempting to question these investments. Every budget cycle, you’ll see a large expense around these infrastructure teams, and people will wonder if it’s really needed. Why are we hiring engineers to manage internal infrastructure instead of assigning more head count to the teams that create products for our customers? It’s because the software infrastructure makes all of your other developers more productive and more successful. Kill it, you’ll quickly realize how
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