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Depends on the growth rate. If it’s flat growth, it’s not cheap at all.


https://www.geekwire.com/2020/chef-hits-key-financial-milest...

“100% growth in incremental recurring revenue” doesn’t say much if they are churning a lot of existing customers. (That they chose such a double-speak revenue number perhaps says a lot). My impression was that DevOps software like this is very hard to pull out once you’ve embedded it in the org.

Am I missing something?


They gave the milk away for free. You only needed to pay if you wanted their super-opinionated delivery pipeline or needed lots of support using Chef.

I worked in a couple places which used Chef and paid for 1-2 years but eventually terminated the commercial relationship.




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