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Stop Being Attached To The Status Quo
- Do zoom out from first principles regularly to avoid staying attached to what you do well but shouldn't.
- Emil's ops team provisioned data centers reactively instead of moving to cloud, which held back company-wide feature development.
Early Cloud Migration Failed Then Later Succeeded
- Emil attempted an early cloud migration for recommendation compute and it failed: it was too slow and too expensive.
- That experience convinced Spotify to continue building in-house for years until cloud matured and priorities shifted.
Plan For Two Years Of Parallel Complexity
- Prepare for long, expensive parallel-run migrations: expect doubled cost, doubled work, and increased complexity.
- Daniel prioritized the cloud move despite orders of magnitude provisioning during the overlap period.