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0 pointsinterroboink2y ago0 comments

The promise of cloud infrastructure is that it can scale to fit demand — start small, and grow as needed. But sometimes the truth is that it just lets people spend money more easily (:

Back in the day, it would have required a whole procedure to buy that hardware, have it set up, etc. Now you can needlessly spend $10k per month with just a few clicks!

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pnpnp2y ago

This is one reason I like serverless. It works for a bunch of cases when you can wrap your head around it, and cost can scale linearly with your growth.

At some point, it might make sense to move off for cost reductions, but tools like GCP Cloudrun (deploy dockerized app servers that scale dramatically better than k8s) can be really nice for a small team.

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0 pointsinterroboink2y ago0 comments

The promise of cloud infrastructure is that it can scale to fit demand — start small, and grow as needed. But sometimes the truth is that it just lets people spend money more easily (:

Back in the day, it would have required a whole procedure to buy that hardware, have it set up, etc. Now you can needlessly spend $10k per month with just a few clicks!

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pnpnp2y ago

This is one reason I like serverless. It works for a bunch of cases when you can wrap your head around it, and cost can scale linearly with your growth.

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