<aside> 💡 Always investigate behind the “this is hard” so you can find a work around it. Estimating cost/time is a skill; something you will develop over time.

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Too expensive to build - root causes

• Pre-built component does not support the functionality you want
• Underestimating the parts needed to make the idea work
• They are not familiar with a part of the code
• May require data migration

The performance would be very slow and/or have poor scalability

See improving performance section in Optimizations Best Practices

Introduce technical debt in the future

• Ask engineers to devise alternatives with less/no technical debt