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The scary thing I saw is that while it's cool that Lambda is $2/month right now, which is negligible, it's $2/month for 900 users. If it scales linearly (and I
by jerf 7y ago
The scary thing I saw is that while it's cool that Lambda is $2/month right now, which is negligible, it's $2/month for 900 users. If it scales linearly (and I don't know that it does, because I don't know exactly how the system works), then that means you're one good blog post somewhere about your extension away from being $200-$2000/month.
That said, my gut says there's a good chance that since the author is surprised at the rate of requests, there's almost certainly an optimization opportunity that wouldn't even take much effort.
- tasogare 7y agoEspecially the author has experience with docker so deploying a container for his app on Digital Ocean would be super quick and easy. In addition, the list of disadvantages seems longer than the advantages, with scary points like the difficulty to debug things (that could easily takes hours to figure out if something don’t run properly).