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Wow, these are some serious expenses! I run a service that does ~30 million requests a month, and I only spend $15 on it. It's an apples to orange comparison,
by Ayesh 8y ago
Wow, these are some serious expenses!
I run a service that does ~30 million requests a month, and I only spend $15 on it. It's an apples to orange comparison, but looking at their costs breakdown, I'm sure a couple engineers with a couple weeks can dramatically reduce their costs.
For me, the biggest cost savings were at browser caching. With `immutable` and far future cache expiration dates, webp images, etc, I could pull of the 30m and growing stats without the server load going more than 0.40.
- kiran-rao 8y agoIf you're able to, could you share what service you run?
- jeandejean 8y agoThat's very tempting to do so but not knowing the exact details of the processing involved, you probably make a mistake on how easy it would be to optimize their costs. It could be true, but would mean engineering time not dedicated at features and likely more risk and more maintenance. It's often hard to admit but costs are not that easy to assess and trade of are tricky.