"...Engineers make plenty of business decisions every day: Deciding the size of a database field, for instance, or a data type. Those types of choices impact th

"...Engineers make plenty of business decisions every day: Deciding the size of a database field, for instance, or a data type. Those types of choices impact the business, admittedly in a micro way..." Micro? I have seen decisions about database architecture that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and thousands of hours of work over time.