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Ex-SWE here. A metric fuckton of engineering in cloud goes into protecting systems against douchebags (e.g. rate limits, isolation). Those systems are not requi
by tlarkworthy 8y ago
Ex-SWE here. A metric fuckton of engineering in cloud goes into protecting systems against douchebags (e.g. rate limits, isolation). Those systems are not required for single tenancy systems in small orgs. Furthermore, those protection systems are often a cause of downtime. I think there are grains of truth in OPs suggestion you can roll your own on at small scale cheaper and with similar reliability. The key saving is it would never survive a multi tenancy situation.
- raxxorrax 8y agoOn the other hand I would always recommend using auth providers. Maybe use something external like auth0 for your google hosted services. But it just seriously reduces development time.
- tlarkworthy 8y agoOn balance I would go hosted too, for everything, but I am sympathetic to the argument that they can roll their own cheaper, especially at non-SV rates. I think it's possible.