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Cost savings don’t have to impact code quality

Ahead of his talk at LeadDev West Coast in October, Plaid’s Mark Robinson discusses cloud costs and how they could be the ticket to both dollar value and improved code quality.
September 06, 2023

Ahead of his talk at LeadDev West Coast in October, Plaid’s Mark Robinson discusses cloud costs and how they could be the ticket to both dollar value and improved code quality.

Cloud cost optimization: some engineers love it and some hate it. Some may even think it falls outside of their area of responsibility – it’s a job for accounting. But the truth is that cost is a really important part of quality engineering, with a dual, positive impact on profitability and performance. 

Ahead of his talk at LeadDev West Coast later this year, LeadDev’s Editor in Chief, Scott Carey (SC), checked in with Mark Robinson (MR), Senior Cloud Engineer at Plaid, to hear more about cloud cost optimization.

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