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Knew a place that turned off the developers' test environment because it was costing 10x that per month. Which was as popular and successful as you can imagine.
by eftpotrm 8y ago
Knew a place that turned off the developers' test environment because it was costing 10x that per month. Which was as popular and successful as you can imagine. I'm.... skeptical about the benefits of the cloud architecture they actually had, given those costs.
- twh270 8y agoOur org just implemented this. A script turns off all services in lower environments (dev, qa) at night; another one turns 'em on in the morning. Of course if you need to, you can run your own script to turn on your services "if you need to". This is being sold as a "step in the right direction", where "right direction" is anything that reduces cloud costs. (Payroll costs are apparently invisible, so the time people waste dealing with this baloney doesn't count. Not to mention the annoyance.) I'm tempted to point out that they could save a lot more money by merging microservices into macroservices....