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For some people $5 is a lot of money. I sympathize.
by jgrahamc 8y ago
For some people $5 is a lot of money. I sympathize.
- dbbk 8y agoIf you're building something that requires workers you're surely already spending far more than $5 on other architecture?
- detaro 8y ago"Requires"? Maybe. In a business setting, sure, $5/month should be nothing. But for "let's play with this serverless stuff and maybe use it for something real in the future", $0 AWS lambda wins over $60/y Cloudflare workers. Or for hobby projects, doing it traditionally and running it on the $60/y VPS I already have instead of spending the money. And if asked later, CF is going to be the one I can't give a direct assessment of.
- kasey_junk 8y agoI too sympathize with people for whom $5 is a lot of money. I would suggest to those that have the skills to make use of cloudflare workers that there are more straightforward ways to change that problem than building proof of concepts against them.
- amrx431 8y agoNot every one is paid in $. There are devs who live in countries with currencies that have lower value when compared to $.
- mises 8y agoDollars are the international reserve currency, like it or not (and believe me, Russia and China don't and are trying to change it). But for now, that means dollars are the most convenient form for buyers and sellers, typically. Also, if the currency is of lower value, they get paid more. Example being the English pound is of a higher denomination than a dollar, but whether it's "worth more" is dictated by purchasing power, relative movement over time, etc.
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