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The three mistakes: 1. spending hundreds of thousands of dollars per month on internet services ('They land themselves in Cloud Jail.') 2. choosing technology
by panic 10y ago
The three mistakes:
1. spending hundreds of thousands of dollars per month on internet services ('They land themselves in Cloud Jail.')
2. choosing technology based on hype rather than maturity ('They get sucked in by “hipster tools.”')
3. not understanding what your computers are actually doing ('They don’t design for monitorability.')
- samfisher83 10y ago>1. spending hundreds of thousands of dollars per month on internet services The problem with this is you don't know if your business will be popular or not. If it isn't and you spend money on well thought out infrastructure well you wasted time and money. If your product is successful then you can buy infrastructure later. Also from a business perspective you don't want PP&E on your balance sheet. That is why you will see so many creative leasing schemes which fsba cracked down on.
- beambot 10y agoWhich is why... (paraphrased) Freedman advises startups to watch the following indicators as a measure of whether they may be approaching the danger zone: - When always-on / constantly-growing workloads cross the $100,000/mo. mark, you may hit the danger zone sooner than you think. - Keep # of lockin services in check. - Monitor for performance and look for cases where someone else's cloud starts to cause issues. This definitely matches infrastructure progression I've seen too!