Rod Hilton on Nostr: The CTO doesn't know enough to drive technology decisions from the top down, and has ...

The CTO doesn't know enough to drive technology decisions from the top down, and has instituted a culture too afraid to make suggestions from the bottom up.

Redundancies are viewed as waste. Overprovisioning for large events seen as a "failure to build to scale the first time".

You can't say in a meeting that you think the cache is a single point of failure because the bozo at the top might say something idiotic like "failure is not an option!" and fire you.