Eric. You actually proved John’s point by not even knowing what a load test is. You assumed he wanted to say “load of tests”. You must be an IT manager with no IT knowledge whatsoever. There are hundreds of people like you in my company.

Yeah. Just this week, I was looking over AWS and Azure pricing. They price like building contractors. As if money grew on trees.
Company I work for, a huge finance company, I can only imagine how much they spend on AWS. Me, since I don’t have any insight into billing, kept creating servers left and right, like anyone else in the company. Then, a friend of mine asked me to look up AWS, to see if he can port his small business to the cloud. I was astonished with the pricing. I guess it makes sense for large businesses since they have a lot of overhead expenses, but for my friend who had me set up his server years ago and his only problem is losing power from time to time, AWS/Azure would be just a money pit.

@Erik: Ah, the good old way of not being able to say anything useful to the argument other than correcting other people’s grammar. Not elaborating which points you are disagreeing with, nor stating why you think it’s bullshit. Heer, have som mor garmar misstakes too correct.

I agree with John to a degree, but in my opinion the further we go from machine code to more higher level languages we tend to rely more and more on dependencies out of our scopes. We could do some tests to narrow down the necessary requirements for the software to run properly, but it’s pretty time consuming and of course time is money for companies.