Knowing Your TCO - Total Cost of Ownership

Explore the concept of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) in modern web development through this 35-minute conference talk from the Reliable Web Summit 2021. Delve into the thriving JavaScript ecosystem and question the necessity of all available tools and libraries. Examine how tooling and developer experience should be viewed as a spectrum, where adding more tools increases costs and risks for developers, businesses, and users. Evaluate the true cost of ownership for modern toolchains and critically assess their worth. Gain insights from speaker Owen Buckley at this ng-conf event, part of a multi-day Angular conference that brings together 1500+ developers worldwide for high-quality training in the Angular JavaScript framework.