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I find it highly entertaining a two-year old company who was founded on the basis of helping slash cloud spending found so much waste in their own AWS spend. Th
by meritt 6y ago
I find it highly entertaining a two-year old company who was founded on the basis of helping slash cloud spending found so much waste in their own AWS spend. This is not an example of dogfooding, but an example of sheer incompetency and massive technical debt.
I'd really like to start seeing a series of blog posts from companies who are running extremely lean and efficient tech environments by utilizing cloud in an intelligent manner and avoiding the expensive and unnecessary bullshit that's so prevalent today. The ones that can brag "How we run a $4M/yr SaaS on $40k/yr of AWS spend!" are far more interesting than "How we stopped incinerating millions of VC money by simply turning off shit we didn't need"
- tilolebo 6y agotwo-year old companies have limited resources. It might have been a deliberate trade off to focus on work that produces value to the customers. Maybe the blog post would have been "How we run a $1M/yr SaaS on $40k/yr of AWS spend!" instead of $4M?