Partner: "We already bought high-end IBM Big Data servers for the project!"
Us: "Did you check the requirements first?" Partner: "...Requirements?"

Result: Beautiful, expensive, completely unusable servers. 💸

Sometimes "coordination" is the most valuable hardware you can invest in. 😅

Read the full story here: https://alexnuttinck.dev/posts/4-the-million-dollar-mistake/

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