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Make sense however platform independence is very hard in reality. As a startup you have to try to squeeze the biggest bang for your buck. That means to fully ex
by dabei 9y ago
Make sense however platform independence is very hard in reality. As a startup you have to try to squeeze the biggest bang for your buck. That means to fully exploit what the platform offers and stretch to its limit. Moving to another platform requires redesigning a lot of optimization or even architecture.
- falcolas 9y agoPerhaps I'm just a jaded sysadmin (wait, I AM a jaded sysadmin), but the bells and whistles are rarely worth the cost of those bells and whistles. Kinesis is a great example. Sure, on paper it looks cheap - fractions of a penny per hour and per million put operations. But just to handle logs for a dozen servers, you're looking at spinning up over 8 shards (for the read capacity mostly), an equal number of lambda aggregators, and a storage service (like managed elasticsearch). This alone can end up costing several hundred dollars a month. And you still want/need a specialist for managing elasticsearch! I've worked for two companies now where they pay out more money for their infrastructure than they do for their entire payroll. There's something that rubs me very wrong with that.