Strategic tech choices: A cost-centric philosophy for CTOs | The Guardian Nigeria News

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Kolawole Olowoporoku is a seasoned expert in designing distributed systems, bringing over six years of experience from diverse industries. He currently serves as a Site Reliability Engineer at Sekai, where he manages and enhances their systems on a daily basis. His primary focus is on developing scalable applications through a combination of DevOps practices. Kolawole writes on how CTOs can adopt cost centric approaches in technology decision processes.

Traditional design principles suggest that cost should be evaluated last, after all design considerations have been met. However, without integrating cost into every design decision, suh designs are likely to fail over time. A cost-centric philosophy integrates cost considerations into the core of technology planning and execution. This means evaluating the financial impact of every design choice.

In traditional IT days, technology spending was managed by the Finance Department….



Source: Guardian Newspaper