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On factor for small companies that I have noticed at the places where I have been is that (as a dev consultant). The places that use the cloud often scale up to
by wwn_se 6y ago
On factor for small companies that I have noticed at the places where I have been is that (as a dev consultant). The places that use the cloud often scale up to much. Since the cloud don't limit developers its very easy to just "spinn up a new xx" and not think about the long term costs.
Unless you are really small, have variable workloads then the cloud is maybe not for you. Unless the cost is a small part of the total cost of the plattform like not really related to how many users/sales you have.
- kaydub 6y agoI've noticed small companies are more worried about the actual bills coming in where as big companies are more worried about the perceived lack of speed/agility in their development. We could spend time making sure we use the smallest aurora instances possible in AWS or we could standardize on a version to support and use the smallest size of that version that's available. We spend a lot on this extra capacity in some places, but it greatly increases our speed in other places. It's all about trade-offs and what your organization values.
- degenerate 6y agoI see this a lot in my industry (health). More often than not, my fellow devs are happy throwing extra servers at a problem instead of tackling the problem :(