Here is a very current example:
a lot of younger people have never done «trunk based development», they think GitHub PRs are the epitome of software development. But PRs were made to support a workflow that makes 100% sense in open source, but often just adds «quality theatre» for team development.

And it is infinitly cheaper to fix security bugs BEFORE you ship rather than after"

I'm going to replace it with an AI Agent any day now, which automatically makes it fresh and new

$1k/yr I meant. Fine for a manufacturing plant, probably not for ecom or the growing SaaS markets. New Relic existed. I used Splunk's first cloud product (storm?) in 13-ish for a B2B, when they replaced that, the new version was already a multiple of the earlier one (2016-ish, API not included 🙄).

The only monitoring I remember in 09 was running something for $1/k (per server? core?) on prem (that solarwinds acquired?) that I was running SQL, HTTP and other checks through, they had just added a visual network map I think...

I've applied similar concepts for a small platform for institutional investors, a new team within a larger global non-profit for something similar to a hiring app (not truly regulatory, but big and global enough for _every_ privacy law to apply from anywhere), plus some far less regulated products.

"Customer X from Bank Y said the app is slow"
"Oh, let's pull up splunk and compare the client-side and server-side traces to see if it's the app, the internet, or something on the client"

I led engineering for a small SaaS company for commercial loan pricing in 2012-2017, we did Continuous Delivery and some of the early folks using CD to support separation of duties, etc. 45min to prod. Engineers talked to customers. Lots of observability experiments on diff platforms of the time.

and rarely someone that has actually succeeded more than once at leading a startup is put in charge and shows they not only have the experience leading startups to market, but also can navigation larger corporate environments (because you're really asking them to do both)

Generally being told to run like a startup translates to "why can't you just execute faster"

Occasionally it's "there's money in that market over there, please do something like X to extract it", which is at least a little closer to "startup"

Oh man, someone did actually threaten to report him yesterday because he was talking in a bad english accent, that might have been a code of conduct violation:

"Do not impersonate anyone else."

Also, let me tell you how useful: "You said something wrong at some point before we reviewed it at 2AM and we can't tell you what it was, so we're going to suspend you so you do better next time" is.

Especially with code of conduct like: "Do not disturb or interrupt gameplay."